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Between Scylla and Charbydis: meeting the demands of the academic research community and a global business Justin Cavernelis-Frost & Natalie Broad The Rothschild Archive London

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Page 1: Between Scylla and Charbydis: meeting the demands of the ... · Justin Cavernelis-Frost & Natalie Broad . The Rothschild Archive . London . eeting the demands of the academic research

Between Scylla and Charbydis: meeting the demands of the academic research community and a global business Justin Cavernelis-Frost & Natalie Broad

The Rothschild Archive London

Page 2: Between Scylla and Charbydis: meeting the demands of the ... · Justin Cavernelis-Frost & Natalie Broad . The Rothschild Archive . London . eeting the demands of the academic research

eeting the demands of the academic research community and a global business Justin Cavernelis-Frost & Natalie Broad

The Rothschild Archive

Between Scylla and Charybdis?...

It doesn’t have to be this way…

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The Rothschild Archive London

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A product of our past

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Business records • Family papers •

Photographs • Paintings • Artefacts

A collection of collections

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Serving the research community: A sanctuary for study

The Reading Room

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Our research projects Nathaniel, 1st Lord Rothschild (1840-1915)

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The Archive in business: the corporate memory

Safe from the bank in the rue Laffitte, Paris, 18thC

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Using history in a contemporary way

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Heritage at our heart

Vitrine at 11, rue Berryer, Paris home of Adèle, Baroness Salomon de Rothschild c.1885

The New Court Vitrine, 2011

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Learning about ourselves from our history

… I learnt something also which will be far more important to me in my future life. This is the fine tradition of New Court which combines business with humanity, without neglecting either. Siegmund Warburg (1902-1982)

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13 September 2011

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Justin Cavernelis-Frost, Archivist

Natalie Broad, Assistant Archivist

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