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.
Trainee Olivia at East Riding Archives
Jacob Bickford, Erin Liu, Ellie Peng and Ash Ullah
‘DIY’ digital preservation: a collaborative trainee project on personal digital archiving
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
Manasseh Boyd, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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
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
Olivia Northrop, East Riding Archives
Engaging the public with archival material at East Riding Archives
Jack Quinlan, Hull History Centre
Basecamp at The National Archives
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
Ash Ullah, London Metropolitan Archives
Through the eyes of a Bridging the Digital Gap trainee
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.