Treasure of the Month for April 2019
This month, continuing our delve into the archives of the Exbury Rothschilds, we look back 80 years to the golden age of opulent travel, with the Inaugural Coasting Cruise in May 1936 of the Queen Mary, one of the greatest passenger liners of the twentieth century.
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Treasure of the Month for March 2019
For the Spring season, we look back to one of the enduring passions of the Rothschild family – horticulture and the creation of beautiful and inspiring gardens. On the 23 March 2019, Exbury Gardens in Hampshire opens for the season. Exbury, famed throughout the world for its rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias (and between the Wars, its orchids) is a stunning sight from March to August. This year the displays will be extra special as Exbury marks its centenary in 2019.
This month we explore the history of the world-famous gardens created by Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942), “a banker by hobby – and a gardener by profession".
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EABH Conference: The Development of Financial Markets, St Petersburg, 20 June 2019: Call for Papers
The eabh is calling for papers for the conference The Development of Financial Markets, 20 June 2019, Bank of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia.
The conference adopts a longue durée approach to the historical study of the design of financial systems and their related institutions. The deadline for abstracts submission is 11 March 2019.
Posted on the 20th February 2019 | Read more…
EABH Archival Workshop: Minting History, St Petersburg, 21 June 2019: Call for Papers
The eabh is calling for papers for the cArchival Workshop Minting History: Financial History at Face Value, 21 June 2019, Bank of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia.
This workshop is aimed at minting and financial institutions’ archivists, money museum curators and researchers. The extensive archives of mints are a treasure-trove of information often covering extended periods of time. Yet some of these archival treasures are only accessible to a handful of specialists or remain largely unknown to researchers and the public. This workshop aims to present these materials to a wider audience and make them more accessible to interested researchers and scholars.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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