ABSTRACT
Mergers have a double, heavy significance for bank archivists. Firstly, amalgamations generate a volume and quality of documentation which has exceptional value both for banking business and for historians of banking. Secondly, amalgamations in modern banking have brought about some of the largest mergers of collections which we have yet seen in business archives. This paper looks at both these aspects of mergers in bank archives, drawing on the experience of British domestic and international banks.
