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Abstract

In 2011, Shefeld Hallam University, UK, launched an archive of popular and “middlebrow” fction published between 1900 and 1950. Tis article will describe the innovative practices developed at the university to collect, research, and catalog the novels, and how members of the public have been actively involved in these processes. As well as producing signifcant scholarly outputs, this project formed an innovative Impact Case Study for submission to the Research Excellence Framework in 2014. Tis system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions requires departments to demonstrate the impact their research has had outside academia.