Our research projects

As an Independent Research Organisation, we lead and produce high-quality, interdisciplinary research.

• Letters of No Moment
• Exploring Remote and Hybrid Engagement

Learn about this major five-year, £18 million investment in the UK’s world-renowned museums, archives, libraries and galleries.

Read about some of the projects we have been involved in.

As an institution we support open access. This means we make the externally funded research our staff has produced freely available to all.

• Mind the gap: Rigour and relevance in collaborative heritage science research
• A decision framework for the preservation of transparent papers
• Probing the 1970s: A case study: Inflation, public relations, and the health administration, 1972
• Discovery: Developing a National Archives’ Catalogue
• The effectiveness of dust mitigation and cleaning strategies at The National Archives, UK
• The effectiveness of dust mitigation and cleaning strategies at The National Archives, UK
• Crowding out the Archivist? Implications of online user participation for archival theory and practice.
• The experience of war widows in mid 17th-century England, with special reference to Kent and Sussex
• Cloth, copyright, and cultural exchange: textile designs for export to Africa at The National Archives of the UK
• Information journeys in digital archives
• Archives matter
• ‘Almost too ruinous to be repaired’: the Unknown Treasures project at The National Archives and the Court of Common Pleas brevia files
• Uses of archives as creative activity: what does it mean to be creative within the archive and library profession?
• Safeguarding the nation’s digital memory: Towards a Bayesian model of digital preservation risk (paper)
• Safeguarding the nation’s digital memory (poster)
• Women in Chancery: An analysis of Chancery as a court of redress for women in late 17th-century England
• Newswriting and satire during the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch wars (1665-1674)
• Safeguarding the nation’s digital memory: Towards a Bayesian model of digital preservation risk (article)
• Defending technocracy? Communicating with the public about nuclear energy: historical perspectives
• More than just algorithms: A machine learning club for information specialists
• Report of the digital preservation expert elicitation workshop held online (28 and 29 April 2020)
• Re-envisioning access for the digital preservation community: challenges, opportunities and recommendations