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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …