 I'm Nathalie Lucy, I'm a PhD placement student at the British Library. I'm doing a three-month placement whilst still studying for my PhD at UCL. The specific project that was advertised at the British Library was one that really interested me because it focused on the correspondence of Andrew Selke. Andrew Selke is a key writer that I'm focusing on within my PhD. A Jamaican author and broadcaster, he corresponded with a wide range of Caribbean writers. Originally all I wanted was a graph of the movement of the letters over time who, where and when and map that over a global map. Thanks to Nathalie's knowledge about the content of the collection we've been able to create a much wider understanding of the network. I think as a pilot project it's being successful in visually depicting information that otherwise would be much more static. It's made me aware of what role Peek and the British Library can play in making archives and information more accessible to a wider audience. The PhD placement is a benefit for the PhD student and for the library. We end up with a great project that we can put out to the world and show that we are working on our collections and the PhD placement gets great experience at the library, access to collections that they wouldn't ordinarily get access to and hopefully that will lead them to work with the British Library in the future. The opportunity to work at the British Library has definitely given me an insight that I wouldn't otherwise have had. It's enabled me to enhance my research and to have direct access to really important archival material. So it's been a really valuable experience.