Helping businesses and organisations preserve their history and share their unique story
Your history is important. We help you find it, keep it, tell it, and make it relevant to today’s world.
History Ink is a heritage and archives consultancy focused on making your history and heritage an asset. Archives and history are an invaluable resource for companies and organisations. As well as preserving corporate history for future generations, archives can build authentic brand stories, successfully communicate the long-term perspective of your company, and provide opportunities to connect with the wider community in meaningful ways.
Meet the Team
We first came together thanks to our shared passion for history and storytelling. Our work has since become a collective mission to build knowledge and share discoveries about the past in the present. Now based in London, Amsterdam and Singapore, we have worked with a wide range of businesses, charities, families and cultural organisations in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Dr Amelia Allsop
Co-founder
Vaudine England
Co-founder
Helen Swinnerton
Co-founder
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Celebrating Our Homestretch Campaign for the Singapore Turf Club
History Ink was commissioned to help deliver a series of films and exhibitions honouring the Club’s 182-year history, including its pioneers, champions and community.
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Sixty Years of The Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong
Unveiled in March 2023, this permanent display situated in the hotel’s East Lobby tells the story of the Mandarin’s 60 years in Hong Kong.
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Revealing refugee histories at the Goethe-Institute
Opened to the public in November 2021, this thematic exhibition was the first to chronicle Jewish refugee lives in Hong Kong before and after the Holocaust.
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Discovering Family Histories
In 2023, History Ink helped uncover the history of an Austrian Jewish family who fled Nazism for Britain, Hong Kong, and China in the 1930s.
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Preserving the history of Asia’s oldest hotel company
In her role as Collections Manager for The Hong Kong Heritage Project (HKHP), Amelia helped acquire and source hundreds of historic records for long-term preservation.
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HSBC: A Virtual Story
This pioneering augmented Reality History Tour App explored the history of HSBC’s links to Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong Maritime Museum
The ‘Made in Hong Kong: Our City. Our Stories’ exhibition attracted over 100,000 visitors as well as local and international media interest.
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HSBC Archives Centre
The HSBC Archive Centre in Hong Kong offers museum-class storage and exhibition space for one of the most important business collections in the Asia Pacific.
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Using Oral History for Public Engagement
Our experience with oral history includes recording and transcribing interviews as well as outreach-based training activities.
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A New History of the Hong Kong Club
An authoritative yet readable book about this most venerable institution involved three years of investigative, writing and publication work.
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Arnholds: China Traders
A lavishly illustrated testament to the more than 150-year-old Arnholds trading company.
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Education and Volunteers Programmes
During her time as Regional Head of HSBC Archives, Helen oversaw the delivery of an education programme to over 900 secondary school students.
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Hari Harilela: Made in Hong Kong
Another original character of Hong Kong’s free-wheeling port city days is seen making his way from teenage street-side trader to current-day riches in this family history book.
Journal
Read the latest on what we’re up to – including conferences, thought pieces, industry news and our current work.
