IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/088
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: FRENCH BURGUNDY AGENTS' ASSOCIATION
Date(s): 1945-1970
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2 production units.
Name of creator(s): French Burgundy Agents' Association
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Association was established in 1945 to protect and promote the interests of the French burgundy trade. By the late 1960s it was in amalgamation discussions with the equivalent trading association for bordeaux wines. The Association's offices were based at those of its officers, but in 1949 it was at 4 Lloyd's Avenue.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
French Burgundy Agents' Association archive, comprising typescript agendas and signed minutes and loose papers only.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The records were deposited by the Institute of Masters of Wine in 1976 and catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in the same year. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2010 to January 2011.