Cohort 3 of Bridging the Digital Gap
Trainee blogs
In these blogs, our current and past Bridging the Digital Gap trainees describe their various projects and what it’s like to work in an archive.
Jacob Bickford, Erin Liu, Ellie Peng and Ash Ullah
‘DIY’ digital preservation: a collaborative trainee project on personal digital archiving
Ben Barber, Manasseh Boyd and Isabelle Reynolds-Logue
Bridging the Digital Gap trainees showcase: activists for digital preservation
Gavin Bambrick, Warwickshire County Record Office
Joining Warwickshire County Record Office
An update for World Digital Preservation Day
Tinkering with the programming language Python
Ben Barber, King’s College London (KCL)
The Interior of a Tank Factory
Chapel Preservation Project
Frances Bell, Explore York
Trainee Thursday
Anne Lister
19th-century family newspapers and how to make your own
Archives under quarantine – accessing archives from home
Announcing launch of Explore York Images
Missing York? Information on our ongoing caption challenge
Jacob Bickford, University of Westminster
Bridging the Digital Gap at Westminster
Digital sources in the archive
Web archiving at Westminster
Providing computational access to the Polytechnic Magazine (1879 to 1960)
Managing your personal digital archive
Manasseh Boyd, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Sam Brenton, University of Bristol
Introducing Sam Brenton, digital archive trainee
Collecting web crawls for the University of Bristol’s archive
Marco Brunello, University of Leeds
Bridging the Digital Gap
The South Bank Show Production Archive Transcription Project
Celebrating 50 years of Northern Ballet: quoted in an article in ARC Magazine, June 2020, page 14
A year and three months as a trainee in Leeds
Jim Costin, University of York
Bridging the Digital Gap
Preserving emails – how hard can it be?
To reorganise or to not reorganise
Bridging the Digital Gap to ARA professional registration
Eimear Coyle, Dorset History Centre
Meet our new Bridging the Digital Gap trainee
Keeping your bits safe
The Internet, the environment and storing records
Goodbye from our Digital Archives Trainee
Tasdiq Dewan, The Guardian Foundation
A year in the Bridging the Digital Gap traineeship
George Jukes
Preserving digital records for the future at the LSE Library
Erin Liu, University of the Arts London (UAL)
Bridging the Digital Gap with UAL
Learning with Joy Cuff
Enriching access to the Camberwell ILEA Archive
Preservation planning for born-digital student artworks
Steering digital preservation ambitions at University of the Arts London: article in ARC Magazine, October 2020, pages 16-17 (co-authored with Elisabeth Thurlow)
Michael Norman, East Anglia Film Archive
Reflections on Bridging the Digital Gap: article in ARC Magazine, July 2020, pages 6-7
Catching up with two former Bridging the Digital Gap trainees
Trainee Olivia at East Riding Archives
Olivia Northrop, East Riding Archives
Engaging the public with archival material at East Riding Archives
Reflections on my traineeship
Beat the ‘dead-line’ and haunt the archives with a chilling tale
East Riding staff case studies
Jack Quinlan, Hull History Centre
Basecamp at The National Archives
What I wish I knew before I started
Ellie Peng, Transport for London (TfL) Corporate Archives
Bridging the Digital Gap: one year on
Isabelle Reynolds-Logue, University College London (UCL)
Bridging the Digital Gap: Part 1
Bridging the Digital Gap: Part 2
Reflections of a Bridging the Digital Gap trainee
Catching up with two former Bridging the Digital Gap trainees
Noor Safi, Amnesty International
Cade Simpson, South West Heritage Trust
Bridging the Digital Gap trainee
Working with audio recordings, and the importance of oral history to local culture
Ash Ullah, London Metropolitan Archives
Through the eyes of a Bridging the Digital Gap trainee
Bridging the Digital Gap opens up new career routes: interview with Ash Ullah in ARC Magazine, September/October 2021, pages 22-23
Natasha Young, Gloucestershire Archives
Our Bridging the Digital Gap trainee, in her own words
Cotswold Roundabout collection goes digital
60 seconds with Natasha Young
15 months at Gloucestershire Archives
From the hosts of the trainees
Elisabeth Thurlow and Zoe Fullard (cohort 2 supervisors): ‘Supporting New Career Routes: Bridging the Digital Gap’, ARC Magazine January/February 2022 issue, pages 11-12
Bryony Hooper, Emma Hancox, Fabi Barticioti, and Philippa Mole (cohort 3 supervisors): ‘Bridging the Digital Gap Trainees: New Assets to the Sector’, ARC Magazine May/June 2022 issue, pages 24-27 (on Issuu)
From The National Archives
Bridging the Digital Gap traineeships bring new skills into archives
Bridging the Digital Gap: technical trainees in archives
Previous traineeship programmes
Transforming Archives was our traineeship programme between 2014 and 2017, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The programme provided 37 paid traineeships for people new to the archive sector in England and provided an introduction to archives, training and on-the-job development. Hear from past Transforming Archives trainees about how they used the skills they had learnt to find rewarding jobs.