Linking London: Browsing the Bookshops in Paul’s Cross Churchyard

Mary Erica Zimmer, Lecturer in Concourse, joined AFUP to continue work on her project Linking London: Browsing the Bookshops in Paul’s Cross Churchyard, which investigates how large-scale datasets can be used to provide insight into individual items in rare books collections and archives—and vice versa. By balancing qualitative with quantitative methods, the project encourages students to pursue object-based claims while demonstrating how "big metadata" can inform bibliographic scholarship.