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- Exeter's pioneers
- Waitrose Partners put down roots
- Happy snappers
- Get on board
- The fast train
- Giving purpose to surplus
- Partnership down
- All hands on decs
- Brand ambassadors
- Dressing up rocks
- Our man in Delhi
- Home and the range
- Backstage hand
- Supply chain reaction
- Up all nights
- Man with a vision
- Home thoughts on abroad
- Changing times
- Eastern star
- Man of The Hour
- Women of provenance
- West End woman
- Sharp outfit
- Firm believer
- More than words
- Sea change
- A fitting role
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The commercial potential of business archives was recognised in July with the launch of a National Strategy for Business Archives at the House of Lords. Judy Faraday, the Partnership's Archivist since 1996, helped produce the strategy, which aims to encourage wider and better business sector management of archives.
The Partnership's own archive includes ledgers, photographs, items of merchandise - anything that throws light on the business's history, or the pre-Partnership history of individual branches. It is also an important resource for external researchers, from the BBC looking at Nineteenth century advertisements to PhD and MA students from the UK and abroad. Judy herself has just been awarded an MPhil for research into 'Women Managers in the JLP 1918–1950', which was sponsored by the Partnership.
'Most people have a family-history box where they keep things that help them understand their background and that have helped mould them,' says Judy. 'The archives are the Partnership's family-history box.'



















