Living with Machines

In this ground-breaking partnership between The Alan Turing Institute, the British Library, and the Universities of Cambridge, East Anglia, Exeter, and London (QMUL), historians, data scientists, geographers, computational linguists, and curators have been brought together to examine the human impact of industrial revolution.

You can find out more about the Living with Machines team on our website.

The crowdsourcing and citizen history aspects of Living with Machines are led by the Communities Lab, directed by Dr Mia Ridge, Digital Curator at the British Library.

While the project has drawn on the whole team, we want to specifically thank the following individuals for their contributions at different points in the project.

Thanks for contributions to our 'what was a machine?' tasks: Dr Barbara McGillivray (LwM, Turing and Cambridge), David Beavan (LwM, Turing), Dr Federico Nanni (LwM, Turing), Professor Emma Griffin (LwM, UEA), Dr Giorgia Tolfo (LwM, British Library), Professor Jon Lawrence (LwM, Exeter), Kaspar Beelen (LwM, Turing), Sarah Gibson (LwM, Turing), Filipe Bento (British Library Labs) for their contributions to this part of the project.

Thanks for contributions to our alpha and beta 'accidents' tasks: Dr Amy Krause (Edinburgh), Daniel Van Strien (LwM, British Library), Dr Kasra Hosseini (LwM, Turing), Dr Rosa Filgueira (Edinburgh). We would also like to thank Matt Evans and his team of solution engineers at VMWare for their feedback on our refreshed 'accidents' task in early 2022.