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In 2013, the co-operative will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the CWS - the Co-operative Wholesale Society. A new business history of the group is planned for publication then and a team has been put together to research the company
There is more information in a leaflet here.
Cork City and County Archives have a new online exhibition that "explores the commercial heritage of Cork through its historical archives."
The exhibition is called Cork: Merchant City and features a variety of items from different collections within the archive including examples from shipping, brewing, provisions, distilling and retail industries.
There's also a great article in the Irish Times about the family dynasties behind many of the businesses.
Thanks to ArchivesIreland on twitter for this infomation.
The Scotts' Exhibition at the McLean Museum starts on Saturday 25th June until 10th September 2011. The exhibition marks the 300th anniversary of Scotts' of Greenock.
Download a poster here.
From the STICK blog: BP's Shale Oil Archive Returns Home to West Lothia...: "Today is an exciting day at the Museum of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry in Livingston as we have just taken delivery of the first batch of Scottish Shale Oil Industry records which have been transferred on long term loan from the BP Archive..."
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