The British Library and university heritage partner the National Trust, have announced a new partnership which will establish collaborative research and increase public knowledge about how their collections have intertwined throughout history.
The partnership launches initially with two new doctoral fellowships set up to uncover lost connections between the Library’s collections and National Trust properties. The fellowships offer current PhD students funded 3-month (or 6 months part-time) professional development placements jointly supervised by the two organisations.
They are now accepting applications from current PhD students for two fellowship projects starting in January 2022. The application deadline is the 18th of October at 5pm. The appointed fellows will receive a stipend equivalent to the UKRI minimum doctoral stipend (plus London weighting), plus reasonable expenses for any fellowship-related travel.
The two projects are:
- Library Dispersal and Acquisition: Links Between The British Library and National Trust (Supervised by Lucy Evans, Curator, Printed Heritage Collections at the British Library and Tim Pye, National Libraries Curator at the National Trust).
- Authors' Houses and Creative Networks: Links Between The British Library and National Trust (Supervised by Carien Kramer, Cultural Heritage Curator at the National Trust and Catherine Angerson, Curator, Modern Archives and Manuscripts at the British Library).
See The British Library website for further details and an application form.