Helen Piel
Channel: British Library
Date: 2019-01-11

“You get to know how people work in an institution like this ... it's something I would like to do as well.”

Helen is exploring the working life of the British evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith (1920-2004) through his archive, held at the British Library, and both his popular and professional writings. Helen’s project is an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between the British Library and the University of Leeds and centres around a prime example of an increasingly common feature of the archival landscape – ‘hybrid archives’ that have both paper and (born-)digital material.