
Ian Cooke
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Ian is Head of Contemporary British Publications at the British Library. Working on Politics and Ideology in Everyday Life course on FutureLearn.
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Do you enjoy reading digital comics & are you based in the UK? If so CDP Connect student Linda Berube may want to speak with you! To find out more read this blog post: blogs.bl.uk/digital-schola… No longer here- please follow me on bsky.app! HCID.CITY Stephann Makri British Library Contemporary British Collections Ian Cooke Stella Wisdom

The #UKDomainCrawl 2023 kicked off today with 11 million seeds. 27,059 of these seeds have been manually identified as being published in the UK. #WebArchiving #UKLegalDeposit #WebArchiveWednesday @BritishLibrary @NatLibScot National Library of Wales @BodleianLibs @TheUL The Library of Trinity College Dublin


Honoured to have our #Transmedia series Clockwork Watch included in the British Library's #DigitalStorytelling Exhibition. It's humbling to be among the very few exhibits at such an esteemed institution. It charts 11 years of written work, events, & a co-created storyworld.


The Stack: We speak with Adam Penny and Hannah Finch from The Beautiful Truth plus Ian Cooke on digital storytelling at the British Library plus @KleinsJournal and Patagon Journal bit.ly/3p3MDUZ


Thanks The Guardian: games, it has been really rewarding to co-curate this exhibition with @giuliacrossi Ian Cooke Florence Smith Nicholls @_jerryjenkins & @mopennock, in collaboration with the featured writers, artists, creatives and developers

Today marks 75 years since HMT Empire Windrush arrived in Britain. 3-Fold Games are making the world's first video game based on lives of the Windrush generation. Play a demo of Windrush Tales in British Library's Digital Storytelling exhibition blogs.bl.uk/digital-schola… #Windrush75


And you can find out more from Stella Wisdom on our Digital Scholarship blog blogs.bl.uk/digital-schola…

Huge thanks to everyone who made #MIX2023 at the British Library such an inspiring & enjoyable event. It was a pleasure to organise MIX with Kate Pullinger Dr Lucy English & Amy Spencer from MyWorld Bath Spa University & The Writing Platform


Want to write your own interactive narrative but don't know where to start? 🧑💻✍️ Here's a list of writing tools for interactive fiction inspired by the British Library current Digital Storytelling exhibition: blogs.bl.uk/digital-schola…


Great video by Tom Scott on the UK's Legal Deposit collection! Ian Cooke and Linda Arnold-Stratford highlight the importance of the UK web domain, digital copies of newspapers, and formats for mobile devices. UK Web Archive British Library Contemporary British Collections #LegalDeposit2023 youtube.com/watch?v=ZNVuIU…

What’s this? A special comics and graphic novel issue of The Bookseller? Featuring work by Karrie Fransman, an interview with Avery Hill Publishing, and the first public data burst from the Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC)? Yes please! ✨






Tonight! Immersive #steampunk storytelling British Library with Clockwork Watch by Yoms, & 19th century London in #Minecraft by Lancaster University blockworks & @thecommonpeople Still a few tickets left if you want to party with us! bl.uk/events/late-at… BritishLibraryEvents