Case studies

How smartphones are changing storytelling: Alastair Horne, PhD student.

A selection of student projects undertaken as part of a one-year part-time postgraduate Certificate (PGCert), Computing...

Artist David Normal used British Library images as source material for his arresting artworks.

Learn about Graham Jevon's journey through the Digital Scholarship Training Programme and catch up on where he is now.

Using our online collection: Eleanor Stuart: Illustrator

Exploring the role of virus checking in long-term collection management and digital preservation.

We have been at the forefront of digitisation and digital preservation projects for over two decades.

Exploring how digital technologies help us to understand music manuscripts.

We help people find and use material held in some of the most unusual and hard to search parts of our collection – answe...

Exploring the challenges and opportunities of collecting interactive web-based works.

Mia's team ensures the Library is equipped for scholars’ digital needs.

Oluwaseun is a Chevening Fellow working at the British Library on a project tagged ‘Big Data and Libraries’. The project...

Library experts helped Peter develop a new digital research tool

Where did the Chartists hold their meetings? Dr Katrina Navickas used digitised 19th-century newspapers to find out.

Ruth uses the digitised newspaper collection to explore attitudes towards immigration in nineteenth century Britain.

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