The Rowntree Lectures and the British Interwar Management Movement
Workshop, 18 January 2018
The Research Team (from the University of Exeter and the School of Management at the University of Bath) are running a Research Workshop on 18 January 2018 at The University of Bath’s Building, 83 Pall Mall, St. James’, London SW1Y 5ES. The morning session is designed to develop skills in being more effective in archives, discussing (and demonstrating) data capture and Optical Character Recognition software. We expect participants to undertake a small-scale OCR project. The team will be joined by Dr Mike Anson, Archive Manager at the Bank of England Archive, who will discuss the Bank Archive’s recent experiments with automated transcription software. This practical session continues methods of retrieving that material in writing up research. In the afternoon session, Professors Alan Booth, Gareth Shaw and Mairi Maclean will present interim findings and conclusions on the Rowntree Lectures and the interwar management movement.
Programme
10 am Workshop opens
10.15 Brief Introduction and Welcome: Alan Booth
10.30 Practical Skills in the Archive: Alan Booth, Rachel Pistol and Mike Anson
This session will involve the use of a digital camera in the archive and the use of OCR software to process those images. We intend to create an OCR exercise for participants
11.45 Databases and other forms of information retrieval: Alan Booth, Rachel Pistol
The session will demonstrate an Access database designed for the individual scholar and a more ambitious project suited to bigger research teams.
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Preliminary Findings
Gareth Shaw, ‘An Introduction to the Rowntree Papers as a Research Resource’
Alan Booth, ‘The cliff edge: British Industry and the pervading sense of crisis after the First World War’
Mairi Maclean, ‘Management Learning and the Rowntree material’.
4.00 Workshop closes
For further details, please contact Professor Alan Booth at a.e.booth@exeter.ac.uk
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