Each year EAP awards grants to researchers to identify and preserve culturally important archives by digitising them in situ.The digital material includes manuscripts, printed books, archival documents, photographs, and early sound recordings.Since 2004, the Endangered Archives Programme has been administered by the British Library with the financial support of the Arcadia Fund.Previous directors include Graham Shaw, Susan Whitfield, Aly Conteh and Adam Farquhar.In 2018, a second phase of the Programme began with a further grant from Arcadia when EAP moved to the Collections and Curation department of the British Library.
Tangut
Buddhist text digitized under EAP140
Preservation through digitisation of the Tangut collection at the Institute of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Shuishu
manuscript digitized under EAP143-1
Shui Manuscript Collection at the Libo Archives, Guizhou, China [16th - 20th Century]
