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THE ROtHScHILD ARcHIVE 41
At the time of writing the archivists are in the process of planning another
publication, this one based on papers that were presented in November 2006 at a
colloquium in Roubaix jointly organized with the Centre des archives du monde
du travail, with the theme ‘The Rothschilds and Eastern Europe’. The occasion
at which this paper was first delivered, a conference organized in London by the
EABH in conjunction with N.M. Rothschild & Sons on the occasion of the bank’s
twohundreth anniversary, and the recent Roubaix event have much in common,
and demonstrate the fact that in spite of all the changes in The Rothschild Archive
in the intervening period and regardless of the changes that may occur in the
future, the mission of the Archive remains the same: to preserve the record of the
past, to make the material available to researchers, and to enable the sharing of
information for the common good.
The Baring Archive, which passed into the ownership of ING following the
collapse of Barings in 1995, was in 2008 placed by them on permanent loan in a
charitable trust, The Baring Archive Ltd. This is in order to ensure the Archives’s
long term preservation. It continues to be located at ING Bank’s offices at 60
London Wall, London EC2M 5TQ, where it is administered by the Trust’s
Archivist, Moira Lovegrove. tel 0044 2077 67 1000; baring.archive@ing.com;
www.baringarchive.org.uk