 My name is Devorah Lieberman and my PhD project is a joint partnership between national life stories at the British Library and the legal biography project at the London School of Economics. What I'm looking at in my PhD is the social world of court clerks in Crown Courts from the 1970s onwards. A lot of people know about the role of judges and barristers but nobody really knows about what the court clerk does so until now it's been quite a mysterious elusive role. This research project will create an archive at the British Library of interviews with Crown Court clerks. I think what's really interesting about the clerk of the court is that they have an overview of what's going on and the many different parties and people who use the court so it gives them a unique perspective. It's been wonderful to be able to use the library space to create such fantastic interviews. This project has been incredibly exciting for me because it's exposed me to not only new institutions but many new people. I really love being part of the team at National Life Stories and learning from the other interviewers about their experience. It's really wonderful to be doing the PhD at the British Library which is such a well-recognised institution and so much research takes place there and to have this opportunity to create and deposit an archive which will be part of the library is really a privilege.