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The British Airways Heritage Collection: an ethnographic ‘history’

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  • Kristene E. Coller
  • Jean Helms Mills
  • Albert J. Mills

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This article develops an ethnographic account of the development and history of the British Airways Heritage Centre (BAHC). Responding to several observations throughout the literature, we report on our experiences of engagement with British Airways’ archives over a 25-year period. In doing so our focus is on the much-neglected history of archives as powerful influences on how corporate histories are written. The ethnographic account is rooted in ANTi-History, an approach to historiography, that focuses on the production of history as knowledge of the past by following a number of human (e.g. archive volunteers) and non-human (e.g. airline artefacts) actors to reassemble the elements that constitute an archive at a point in time. To that end, we trace the inter-relationships between histories of British Airways and the development of the BAHC. We conclude that a focus on the various human and non-human relationships that constitute an archive can help the researcher to identify the hidden influences on the production of history that can otherwise serve to enrol him or her.

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  • Kristene E. Coller & Jean Helms Mills & Albert J. Mills, 2016. "The British Airways Heritage Collection: an ethnographic ‘history’," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 58(4), pages 547-570, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:bushst:v:58:y:2016:i:4:p:547-570
    DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2015.1105218
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