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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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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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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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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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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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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