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Publishing updated version of ‘R for Newspaper Data’
My Living with Machines Digital Residency, which I carried out between May and July 2023, allowed me to update and publish an online book on accessing and analysing newspaper data. The goal of the book is to make available an end-to-end set of instructions and tutorials which would allow researchers,...Ryan, Yann Ciarán
digital humanities, Victorian, historical newspapers, and Living with Machines
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An Etiquette For Minor Time Travel
A report documenting the Living with Machines Digital Residency project called "An Etiquette for Minor Time Travel" by Robert Sherman. Via an open call and running from to July 2023, six Digital Residencies were funded by the Living with Machines project to support researchers and practitioners devising creative approaches to...Sherman, Robert
art, Living with Machines, Victorian, rail, data visualisation, digital humanities, and poetry
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Visualising press politics in the United Kingdom
This project's main goal, as outlined in the initial proposal, was to develop an interactive, open-source web app that visualizes data from the Press Directories dataset alongside historical general election results. In this report, I will delve into the challenges encountered, the interesting findings uncovered, and the potential avenues for...Bonato, Nicolò
historcial newspapers, digital humanities, Victorian, politics, data visualisation, and Living with Machines
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The Devils After the Fall
This is a report by Nicola Baldwin of a Digital Residency at Living With Machines, on the dataset: Crowdsourced accidents data from Newspapers, working in line with the LWM aims for Radical Collaboration, New Perspectives, Analysing at Scale. The following document is a personal account of work done, thoughts arising...Baldwin, Nicola
Living with Machines, accidents, Victorian, film, crowdsourcing, newspaper, and digital humanities
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UK Railway Archive (AR-UK)
Archive The Railway UK (AR-UK) is a comprehensive digital platform designed to enhance the online archives of the UK rail network. This initiative, developed in collaboration with Living with Machines, is primarily focused on research, historical preservation, and providing public access to railway history. As a centralized resource, it caters...Sheppard, Joanne
digital humanities, Victorian, rail, data visualisation, and Living with Machines
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Circulations and Entangled History in 19th Century Chile
The Living with Machines Digital Residences have offered our research team a remarkable opportunity to experiment with methods for extracting data from historical newspapers dating back 100 to 150 years. This interdisciplinary project aims to expand the scope of digital humanities and historical research by developing automated techniques for data...Hayward, Jennifer ; Valenzuela, Gillian ; Shakib, Khandokar
digital humanities, historical newspapers, Living with Machines, and Victorian
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Horticultural Collections at the British Library & the National Trust: Project Report
The British Library (BL, or the Library) and the National Trust (NT, or the Trust) each have a rich relationship with the history of horticulture and botany. The aim of this June – September 2023 Doctoral Fellowship was to explore the relationship between gardens and books in the BL’s printed...Murray, Grace
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Romance Self-Publishing and UK Legal Deposit
This project on romance self-publishing and legal deposit was conducted September 2023 – February 2024 in order to investigate the practices of self-published authors in the UK and their relationship to legal deposit. In particular, the research aimed to support the British Library and other deposit libraries in the identification...Deane, Katie
self-publishing, authorship, British Library PhD placement, legal deposit, digital publishing, popular romance, and publishing
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Butter Lamps, Natural Disaster, and Climate Change in the Himalayas: Preserving and Accessing the Textual Literary Heritage of Bhutan Through the Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library
In my article “Butter Lamps, Natural Disaster, and Climate Change in the Himalayas: Preserving and Accessing the Textual Literary Heritage of Bhutan Through the Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library,” I provide an introduction to the five Bhutanese collections at the British Library Endangered Archives Programme: (1) EAP 310...Schwerk, Dagmar
endangered archives, heritage, climate change, Buddhism, postdoctoral fellowship, Himalayas, natural disasters, Bhutan, and digitised collections
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British Library Research Report 2021–22
The latest edition of our Research Report, covering the academic year October 2021 to September 2022 is available. This is the sixth issue of this publication, which has become an annual highlight in our communications about our research. It is an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate achievements of the...The British Library
Research partnerships, Research support, Research engagement, Eccles Centre, Visual arts, Postgraduate research, GLAM, and Research projects
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Jane Austen and the Georgian Social Whirl of Bath: Understanding the importance of Provincial Assembly Rooms and Public Social Entertainments in Georgian Literature - Project Report
This report details the experience and findings of the 2023 British Library-National Trust Doctoral Fellow, undertaking the project titled Jane Austen and the Georgian Social Whirl of Bath. This project was undertaken across three months, from 3 January to 31 March 2023. The report is organised into two main sections....Edwards, Joanne
British Library, Bath, Jane Austen, National Trust, and Georgian period
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Final report of the Doctoral Fellowship titled Creative Networks and Authors’ Houses: Links Between The British Library and National Trust
This report outlines the scope, findings and experience of the British Library and National Trust Doctoral Fellowship called Creative Networks and Authors’ Houses. Josip Martincic undertook a three-month placement to explore the networks and homes of George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf and Rudyard Kipling. The overarching purpose of the fellowship...Martinčić, Josip
George Bernard Shaw, collaborative doctoral fellowship, British Library, National Trust, Virginia Woolf, and Rudyard Kipling
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Enhanced curation: Interpreting the digital life of Andrea Levy and Will Self
This paper is based on the British Library doctoral placement project, ‘Developing an enhanced curation framework for contemporary hybrid archives’ (2022), which investigated the digital archives of two contemporary British writers, Andrea Levy and Will Self. It aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the writers' material life through close...Li, Xiaozhou
born-digital archives, literary archives, and hybrid archives
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Surfacing the impact of international doctoral research: Working with the EThOS collection
This booklet presents the work of a research team from Durham University who have been working in partnership with the EThOS team at the British Library to build impact from the knowledge and research of UK doctoral theses, making them accessible and actionable for community organisations. Knowledge generated by doctoral...Montgomery, Catherine ; Stewart, Craig ; Poli, Francesca
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Contextualising a digital photographic archive of Siberian Indigenous peoples: PhD placement report
This report covers work undertaken over six months (part-time) on the PhD placement ‘Contextualising a digital photographic archive of Siberian Indigenous peoples’. The work was carried out between October 2022 and March 2023 under the supervision of Dr Katya Rogachevskaia, Lead Curator for the British Library’s Slavonic and East European...Maslenova, Anna
visual narratives, photographic archive, ethnographic expeditions, Russian colonial practices, and indigenous peoples of Siberia
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Mapping British Library Collections with National Trust Sites: Report on findings from initial mapping exercise March–August 2020
This report outlines the top level mapping activity undertaken between March–August 2020 to identify links between the British Library’s collections and National Trust properties, and its key findings. Its aim was to identify and facilitate future collaborative research opportunities between the two institutions. The original brief for this work can...Evans, Lucy ; Louca-Richards, Zoe
research, heritage, British Library, collections, National Trust, and partnership
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2022-23
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2022. Includes a round-up of 'An Oral History of Farming, Land Management and Conservation in Post-War Britain', the launch of new web resources, and an article on the journey of the life story interview.National Life Stories
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Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014 Collection Scoping Document
This document aims to establish the scope of the web archive collection for the Commonwealth Games to be held in Glasgow. The proposed collection has been given the working title “Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014". Collection of internet sites relating to the XX Commonwealth Games which were held in Glasgow, Scotland,...MacGlone, Eilidh
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British Library Research Report 2019-20
It will come as no surprise that the impacts of a global pandemic on our research activities are a major theme of this, our fourth, annual Research Report. Regular readers will know that our reports reflect the breadth of research undertaken by our staff, students, fellows and collaborators during the...British Library
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British Library Research Report 2020–21
This fifth annual research report has a particular emphasis on digital research, with features on crowdsourcing, international collaborations in digital scholarship and digitising our collections. A highlight this year was the return of exhibitions at our St Pancras site in London. You can read about the research that informed three...British Library
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East and Southeast Asians in the UK Collection Scoping Document
The aim of this special collection is twofold: 1) to capture and record the recent anti-racist political mobilisation by people of East and Southeast Asian ethnicities and backgrounds in the UK; 2) to preserve the digital traces of the history and lived experiences of these diverse and dynamic individuals and...Ma, Xiao
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New Approaches to Colonial History using British Library Resources: Reflections from a Three-Month Placement
In this report, I hope to have conveyed a sense of the vast potential for exploring the history and legacies of European colonialism through the British Library’s collections. The material from colonial contexts ranges from maps and stamps to Endangered Archives sources and rare ephemera. These sources do not just...Hanna, Rory
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Alfred Cort Haddon 1898 Expedition (Torres Strait and British New Guinea) Cylinder Collection (C80) – Torres Strait Islands cylinders Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the Torres Strait Islands cylinders within the British Library’s Alfred Cort Haddon 1898 Expedition (Torres Strait and British New Guinea) Cylinder Collection (C80). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between August 2019 and August... -
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The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Collection 2022 Scoping Document
This document aims to establish the scope of a thematic website collection initiated on the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, 2022. In 2022, Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 70th year as monarch. This occasion will be commemorated across the United Kingdom with a variety of events such as tree planting, street parties,...Major, Daniela
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UKWA ‘Sustainable Development and Wales’ Collection Scoping Document
This document aims to establish the scope of the thematic website collection ‘Sustainable Development and Wales’ as part of the UK Legal Libraries Non-Print Legal Deposit collection building. The working title for the collection is ‘Sustainable Development and Wales’.Betts, Aled
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Skills, Tools, and Knowledge Ecologies in Web Archive Research
This study is part of a collaborative project by researchers from Maynooth University, the British Library, the International Internet Preservation Consortium, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and the University of Siegen. The research team are all members of Web ARChive studies network researching web domains and events (WARCnet). The study focuses on individuals...Healy, Sharon ; Byrne, Helena ; Schmid, Katharina ; Bingham, Nicola ; Holownia, Olga …
web archiving and WARCnet
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2021-22
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2021. Contains updates on NLS projects, with feature articles on 'Voices of Cartier's English Art Works Workshop' and the new web resouce 'Voices of British theatre design'.National Life Stories
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Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1904 Cylinder Collection (C62) Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the British Library’s Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1904 Cylinder Collection (C62). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022. The document contains information about the recording context...Barnecutt, Vicky ; Niles, Don
world and traditional music, phonograph, British New Guinea, True Echoes, wax cylinder, Charles G Seligmann, Papua New Guinea, and Daniels Ethnographical Expedition
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Alfred Cort Haddon 1898 Expedition (Torres Strait and British New Guinea) Cylinder Collection (C80) – British New Guinea cylinders Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the British New Guinea cylinders within the British Library’s Alfred Cort Haddon 1898 Expedition (Torres Strait and British New Guinea) Cylinder Collection (C80). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June... -
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Thomas Edge-Partington 1909-1914 British Solomon Islands Protectorate Cylinder Collection (C83) Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the Thomas Edge-Partington 1909-1914 British Solomon Islands Protectorate Cylinder Collection, which is part of the British Library’s Royal Anthropological Institute Cylinder Collection (C83). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June... -
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Bronislaw Malinowski 1915-1918 Trobriand Islands, Territory of Papua Cylinder Collection (C46) Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the British Library’s Bronislaw Malinowski 1915-1918 Trobriand Islands, Territory of Papua Cylinder Collection (C46). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022. The document contains information about the recording context... -
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WHR Rivers and Arthur M Hocart 1908, New Georgia group, British Solomon Islands Protectorate Cylinder Collection (C108) Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the British Library’s WHR Rivers and Arthur M Hocart 1908, New Georgia group, British Solomon Islands Protectorate Cylinder Collection (C108). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022. The document... -
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John Layard 1914-1915 Atchin, New Hebrides Cylinder Collection (C177) Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the British Library’s John Layard 1914-1915 Atchin, New Hebrides Cylinder Collection (C177). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022. The document contains information about the recording context and recording...Barnecutt, Vicky
John Layard, True Echoes, Vanuatu, World and Traditional Music, New Hebrides, Oceania, Malakula, ethnographic field recording, wax cylinder, and phonograph
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Eric Raff 1924 Efate, New Hebrides Cylinder Collection (C83) Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the Eric Raff 1924 Efate, New Hebrides Cylinder Collection, which is part of the British Library’s Royal Anthropological Institute Cylinder Collection (C83). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022.... -
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Paul Montague 1914 Gondé, New Caledonia Cylinder Collection (C671) Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the British Library’s Paul Montague 1914 Gondé, New Caledonia Cylinder Collection (C671). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022. The document contains information about the recording context and recording...Barnecutt, Vicky
True Echoes, World and Traditional Music, New Caledonia, phonograph, Paul Montague, ethnographic field recording, wax cylinder, Oceania, and Gondé
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Scoping Skills and Developing Training Programme for Managing Repository Services in Cultural Heritage Organisations
The objectives of this study are to frame open research skills and competencies for cultural heritage professionals by identifying their needs and requirements, and to design a training programme that will be easily utilised by those cultural heritage organisations (and specifically those that are IROs) seeking to establish or expand...Holt, Ilkay ; Miles, Susan ; Marples, Alice ; Kaur, Kirrn ; Cope, Jez …
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Investigating small publisher fairs across the UK to support collection development for artists’ books and fine press
My placement project focussed on small publisher fairs across the UK to support the British Library’s development of its artists’ books and fine press publication holdings. With supervision and guidance from Jerry Jenkins, I collected data relating to the exhibitors at small publisher fairs in order to analyse the regional...Isherwood-Wallace, Eva
artists' book publishing, fine press publishers, publishing, independent publishers, book fairs, and independent presses
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Library Dispersal and Acquisition: Links Between the British Library and National Trust
In September 2021 the first round of collaborative Doctoral Fellowships was announced by the British Library and the National Trust. The first round was to consist of two fellowships: “‘Creative Networks and Authors’ Houses’: Links Between the British Library and National Trust” and “Library Dispersal and Acquisition: Links Between the...Blair, Laura
Ham House, National Trust, Belton House, Blickling Hall, British Library, collaborative Doctoral Fellowship, acquisitions, Dyrham Park, dispersals, Oxburgh Hall, and Kedleston Hall
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Intersectional Taxonomies: Current and Future Practice (V.1)
This research project has been divided into two phases of completion, the first resulting in V.1 of a Research deck to be shared on Monday, 11 July, and the second, with a written Project report, including Literature review and Bibliography, informing V.2 of the deck to be delivered Monday, the...Kelleher, Ashley
GLAM, shared repository service, taxonomies, and cultural heritage
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Intersectional Taxonomies: Current to Future Use (V.2)
The methodology below has enabled the author to examine the applied structures of metadata currently employed throughout the Repository Shared layer, as well as with in each partner’s live environment, as well as gain a look and feel of the current UX experience of the Research Repository. 1. Page visits...Kelleher, Ashley
shared repository service, taxonomies, cultural heritage, and GLAM
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Locating a National Collection (LaNC) Final Report
Locating a National Collection helps cultural heritage organisations to use geographical information — such as where objects were made and used or the locations they depict and describe — to connect collections and engage the public. Through workshops, audience research and software development the project has developed a set of...Rees, Gethin ; Gadd, Stephen ; Horgan, John ; Hunt, Alex ; Isaksen, Leif …
location, geographical information, collections, cultural heritage organisations, research data, and digital records
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Publisher Submission Portal User Survey Report – December 2021
The Publisher Submission Portal is a tool that can be used to deposit born digital publications to the British Library, and other legal deposit libraries, to fufil obligations under legal deposit law. The Portal is designed for use by small publishers, defined as producing 50 or fewer publications per year....Hazell, Lottie
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UK Retail Industry: Scoping Document
This document aims to establish the scope of a thematic website collection initiated as part of the UK Legal Libraries Non-Print Legal Deposit collection building. The proposed collection has been given the working title ““The UK retail industry: changes on the high street””. The objective is to preserve those web...Mattos, Lola
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UK Company Websites: Scoping Document
This document aims to establish the scope of a website collection initiated as part of the UK Legal Deposit Libraries Non-Print Legal Deposit collection building activity. The collection has been given the working title “UK Company Websites”. It aims to establish a rationale for collecting websites of UK companies of...Corsini, Tony
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Practice Research - Report 1: What is practice research? and Report 2: How can practice research be shared?
Practice research has a history stretching as far back as the earliest human experiments: practice is a method of discovering and sharing new findings about the world that surrounds us. In recent years, scholarly communication has undergone a series of changes that have led to a broadening of the landscape...Bulley, James ; Şahin, Özden
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New Media Writing Prize (NMWP) Collection Scoping Document
This document aims to establish the scope of a thematic website collection initiated as part of the CDAS Emerging Formats work. This collection has been given the working title “New Media Writing Prize Collection”. The New Media Writing Prize (NMWP) was established in the UK in 2010 by Bournemouth University,...Rossi, Giulia Carla
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Data Study Group Final Report: The National Archives, UK: Discovering Topics and Trends in the UK Government Web Archive
The challenge we address in this report is to make steps towards improving search and discovery of resources within this vast archive for future archive users, and how the UKGWA collection could begin to be unlocked for research and experimentation by approaching it as data (i.e. as a dataset at...Beavan, David ; Nanni, Federico
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Living with Machines Delivery Plan version 1, 2019
Living with Machines is a five-year collaborative project. It aims to generate new perspectives on the effects of the mechanisation of labour on the lives of ordinary people in Britain during the 'long nineteenth century' (c.1780-1918), by developing computational and historical techniques and research questions for working with historical sources....Ahnert, Ruth ; Beavan, David ; Colavizza, Giovanni ; Farquhar, Adam ; Griffin, Emma …
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