 I'm Dominic Bridge, I'm a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership student at the British Library and the University of Liverpool, funded by the AHLC. My research is in music publishing in the 18th and 19th centuries. What's great about the Collaborative Doctoral Partnership is that you have supervision from the British Library and from the university. My supervisor, Mark Talcy at Liverpool University, he provides the kind of academic support for the project. We meet more or less once a month and we talk through secondary literature and drive the project on intellectually. Working between the university and the culture institution means that I'm being pushed forward intellectually as well as gaining this greater understanding of the material. One of the great things about working at the British Library is they have these huge collections and there's always something new to find. Most people have looked at musical scores for their musical content, but actually these rich historical documents which contain lots of images and writing put there by the publisher that frames how people look at the music. What publishers were doing is they were trying to tap into a market for goods. They've put patriotic images of the score or the social expectations of women. My research is trying to show that the printed music collections at the British Library are of historical importance, not just for the musical content but also as something that can reflect the culture in which they were made. I had the opportunity to work on the Beethoven exhibition at the library. The best part of the experience was seeing the development of an exhibition through from its conception to the exhibition opening. Working on the exhibition was a great opportunity to use those research skills you developed at the university and then put them into a kind of a public-facing project. I would never have had the opportunity to do that anywhere else. I felt like I was part of the team at the library and they invest a lot into you as a researcher.