The Cork Archive is a “Digitising the Humanities” archive project that provides an insight into bankruptcy and corporate insolvency policy, reform and case law through a series of archived documents from Sir Kenneth Cork’s famous Cork Committee, Muir Hunter QC’s personal archive, the Poulson affair and insolvency case law bundles from the 19th and early 20th century.

The paper archive has been scanned and digitised using an optical character recognition (OCR) script to convert the legible text to formatted text. The documents were then automatically uploaded to the website allowing the archive to be searched based on keywords. All the documents can be viewed online and offer an excellent source of learning materials provided by the University of Liverpool.