British Cartoon Archive Digitisation (BCAD) project

The British Cartoon Archive Digitisation Project (BCAD) involved a redesign of the British Cartoon Archive (BCA) website, to increase its functionality and usefulness to researchers, teachers, and students, and the addition of new digital images from the BCA collection. The new digital images came largely from the huge Carl Giles collection, which arrived at the BCA in 2005 and is now totally accessible through the BCA online catalogue.

The project was designed to provide the widest possible access to the most important collection of material relating to British newspaper cartooning, thereby vastly increasing the cartoon's widespread "free view" availability. It also provides use and re-use of the archive content for teaching and research purposes.