 My name is Andrew Rackley and I'm the British Sociological Association Fellow for Sociology at the British Library. We're at the British Sociological Association in Durham where I'm speaking to my supervisor Judith Mudd and the BSA represents the public face of sociology within Britain and actively promotes this through a range of public events and lectures. The BSA was very interested in exploring sociological phenomenon using archival materials as are held by the British Library and equally the British Library was very interested in encouraging more people to access its collections. My role is to bridge the gap between these two needs. I used the British Sociological Association Networks to speak to sociologists to identify the types of things that they were interested in and to get a sense of what sorts of content that they were used to working with. Working with the British Library and its curators we've identified several specific areas of content that they hold and I will be doing case studies ultimately include in a final report that will be presented to the British Library and the British Sociological Association. Identifying material within the British Library can be challenging part of the work that the British Library does the reason that they have open days is to help people know where to start, know what to look for and know how to look for it. I think one of the underlying principles of the fellowship that I'm doing is that you might just be surprised by what you can find there.