 My name is Jeremy Brown. I'm in the second year of my PhD which is called Maps and the Italian Grand Tour. I'm treating maps not just as scientific objects but artistic objects and I'm looking at them in relation to movement of people and tourism. It's a collaborative PhD between Roy Holloway and the British Library and I'm studying a collection of maps in the British Library. One of the major pulls of this project was the chance to work at the British Library. I thought it was a great opportunity to work with a collection and work alongside curators while also getting all the support from a traditional university. King George III's topographical collection is a truly amazing collection in the British Library. The Italian section that I'm working on contains between 4,000 and 5,000 items. The collection hasn't been catalogued since the early 19th century so a major benefit for me and also the British Library is a recatlogging effort on my part going through the maps systematically and adding comment on interesting maps. This recatlogging will open up the collection for future research so when researchers look online they'll be able to have a much bigger idea about what it is they're ordering up. The library is a fantastic place to work, it's really inspiring to go every day and work there. The collaborative PhD supports the students very well in providing a space for them to really focus on the research that they're doing. The way they set it up, here it is, find out what you're interested in and then take it in that direction.