Treasure of the Month for February 2019
In today’s fast-moving business environment, rapid access to accurate intelligence is critical. Protecting our information assets is a key responsibility of us all. But protection of information is not just a 21st century phenomenon. This month we look back to how the Rothschild business has historically employed methods to keep data safe and secure.
Posted on the 1st February 2019 | Read more…
Treasure of the Month for January 2019
This month we look at a fine example of a delicate photograph by Anselm von Rothschild (1844-1911). a gifted photographer and leading member of the Viennese Camera Club.
Posted on the 1st January 2019 | Read more…
Treasure of the Month for December 2018
As we approach the festive season, we look back to the origins of the sending of cards as Christmas tradition, (started by one of the United Kingdom’s earliest archivists!), and feature a gallery of one hundred years of seasonal cards in the collection of The Rothschild Archive.
Posted on the 1st December 2018 | Read more…
Treasure of the Month for November 2018
One hundred years ago this month, the Armistice ended fighting on land, sea and air, marking a victory for the Allies and a defeat for Germany in the First World War. This month, Deputy Archivist Natalie Attwood, cataloguer of the photographic collections of Robert de Rothschild, takes a look at his military service on the battlefields of Belgium and France. During November, the New Court War memorial will be on display in the main reception, New Court.
Posted on the 1st November 2018 | Read more…
Treasure of the Month for October 2018
The Rothschild business houses are renowned for their integrity. This month we look back nearly 200 years to correspondence between the extraordinary ‘Sir Gregor MacGregor’ and the London house of Rothschild, and the refusal by Nathan Mayer Rothschild to be taken in by what has been called one of the most brazen confidence tricks in history. Gregor MacGregor was a Scottish soldier, adventurer and swindler who attempted from 1821 to 1837 to draw British and French investors and settlers to ‘Poyais’, a fictional Central American territory that he claimed to rule.
Posted on the 1st October 2018 | Read more…
Treasure of the Month for September 2018
This month the Archive looks to sunny climes in Cannes, at the Villa Rothschild, with a report from The Graphic, 1892.
Posted on the 1st September 2018 | Read more…
Economic History Conference celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the Bank of Greece
Economic History Conference, The birth of inter-war central banks:
building a new monetary order
2 & 3 November 2018, Athens
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the operation of the Bank of Greece. To celebrate the event, the Bank is organising an international economic history conference, to be held in Athens on November 2-3, 2018. The conference is titled The birth of inter-war central banks: building a new monetary order and shall focus on central banking in the inter-war years, particularly the string of new banks that were established in the 1920s and 1930s.
Posted on the 7th August 2018 | Read more…
Treasure of the Month for August 2018
This month The Rothschild Archive welcomes a very fine portrait of a ‘Princess’ to its London Reading Room. The Reading Room can lay claim to some remarkable works of art, each depicting a member of the family who has had an affinity with preserving Rothschild history. The works on show include portraits by Philip de Laszlo, Sergei Pavlenko, Bern Schwartz and now Bertha Clara von Rothschild by Ellis William Roberts, purchased at auction in Paris and gifted to the Archive by Baron Eric de Rothschild, Chairman of The Rothschild Archive Trust.
Posted on the 1st August 2018 | Read more…
EABH Conference, 26 October 2018, London, United Kingdom
The European Association for Banking History (EABH) is pleased to invite submissions for its next conference: Institutional Investors: The history of professional fund management
Posted on the 6th July 2018 | Read more…
Treasure of the Month for July 2018
This month we look back upon the fine tradition of training and apprenticeship at the Rothschild businesses. On 4 June 1831, James de Rothschild (1792-1868), founder of the French business, wrote to his brother Nathan (1777-1836) in London. The letter concerned the arrival in Paris of Nathan’s son Nathaniel (1812-1870), who was to begin an apprenticeship with de Rothschild Frères in the rue Laffitte that was to shape the rest of his life.
Posted on the 2nd July 2018 | Read more…