ALT A colour photograph of the front page of a salmon coloured newspaper. The words “Ink Cypher” sit at the top centre of the page in a dark blue font and underneath this is a large circular graphic with curved lines connecting different points of the circle to each other.

ALT The square launch graphic for Ink Cypher celebrates Hip Hop at 50 has a purple coloured background. Filling the top three quarters of the image are six rows of eight square photographic portraits of the contributors and editor to Round, One, Two and Three of Ink Cypher. The 48 people are aged from their mid 20s to early 70s, have different ethnicities, hairstyles and are mostly smiling whilst looking at the camera. At the bottom left of the image running from left to right are the words “Ink Cypher”. The font looks quite slimy and each letter has drips falling off it; the font is mustard in colour and each letter has a thin black outline around it and it fills over half the width of the graphic. To the right of the R in cypher (in a smaller font) are the words "A Collection of Fresh Essays on Hip Hop Dance” and “ed. by Ian Abbott" in a similar font.

ALT A square, burgundy marketing graphic with white text for the Discovering Collections Discovering Communities 2023 conference. It has the logos of the British Library, The National Archives and Jisc across the top, "DCDC23" below that, "Radical reimagining: interplays of physical and virtual" below that and #DCDC23 in the bottom right hand corner.

ALT On the left side – which has a teal background – there is the following mustard coloured text: “Ink Cypher, ed by Ian Abbott” “Round Three” “An Interview with Grudge Oneski - The Realest Bboy in the UK” “Iain Bleakley” “Before I finish the question, Grudge begins his answer. “Rule number one, everyone is a mug. If you even have to ask, then you know wot you are. Second of all, you come up to me for “advice” in MY session in MY ends. You are a mug. Try to shake my hand, have a “chat”- what!? - MUG - “Cypher” with you. Forget it. You cypher with too many mugs it’s toxic. It’s called style pollution - look it up! I didn’t expect Grudge to use air quotes, but when he does, his sentences appear in mid-air written in the bubble fonts of yesteryear, a golden age in which he sees it as his responsibility to preserve Hip Hop exactly as it was.” On the right is a photo of Iain, a White man in his thirties who is wearing a white bucket hat. He is crouched with his elbows resting on his knees.

ALT On the left side – which has a teal background – there is the following mustard coloured text: “Ink Cypher, ed by Ian Abbott” “Round Three” “Decipher The Cypher” “Astrid Aristizábal” “Imagine that behind every single person cyphering, there is a long line of ancestors and energies that made possible the embodiment now and here. Landing as a stranger in a land different to your own home pushes you to start from zero. Zero is the cipher, you follow me? In a new territory, you own nothing, except your body (luckily we can tell that story today, after overcoming major slavery). On the right side is a full body photo of Astrid who sat down and leaning against a tree. Astrid is a Latino woman in her in late twenties with mid length blonde hair (with dark roots) that is parted to the right. She’s wearing orange trousers, an orange windbreaker jacket and white trainers, has a small tattoo on her left temple. The background is full of trees and there are pine needles in the foreground.

ALT On the left side – which has a teal background – there is the following mustard coloured text: “Ink Cypher, ed by Ian Abbott” “Round Three” “Starla Carr” “Hip Hop Hair: How Hairstyles Influence Movement” “I remember the first time I saw the Roger Rabbit at a college party. A girl I went to high school with attended Kansas University after graduation. Her popularity got her invites to the frat parties, so she invited me to come hang with her. The minute the fraternity steppers started gathering in a line, we waited to see what they would do. They yelled out their frat calls as they snaked around the room. The steppers dressed in oversized suits like Bobby. Most of the guys wore a slanted fade called a gumby or had steps carved into their high-top fade. On the right side is a photo of Starla, a Black woman in her fifties wearing a black durag and tortoiseshell glasses. She is looking at the camera & wears a white top and a black and white patterned scarf.

ALT On the left side – which has a teal background – there is the following mustard coloured text: “Ink Cypher, ed by Ian Abbott” “Round Three” “Wendy Pedroso Martinez” “Living Hip Hop in Uruguay: A Portrait of Bgirl China” “She describes how she dressed the following Saturday: "I put two caps on, one forward and one back. On the sleeves of my coat I put two handkerchiefs - one with the flag of Japan and one with the flag of the USA. I grabbed my mom's red pants, cut one leg off and patched the other leg with a blue one. My sister Jessica accompanied me in that madness, and we walked arm in arm as if she were my girlfriend. And guess what? I was able to dance that night. On the right side is a close up facial portrait of Wendy. She’s a light brown skinned woman in her late twenties with short dark hair and black framed glasses. Her head is tilted to our left, she’s smiling and wears a red top with silver zips on.

ALT On the left side – which has a teal background – there is the following mustard coloured text: “Ink Cypher, ed by Ian Abbott” “Round Three” “Malvina Tessatore” “Sharing and its Limits: A Non-Anthropological Perspective on Barcelona Freestyle Dancers” “Sharing allows for inspiration to flow. However after sharing, after opening and exposing oneself to new possibilities, a moment of introspection, of personal exploration and adaptation has to follow. “The act of sharing and the moments in which sharing takes place allow me to learn more. I then adapt what I learn, what I see, to my own style and my own dance. By doing so I take what I like and I then transform it, making it evolve. After that moment of personal exploration through training then comes the moment to share again, in order to inspire others in their own personal journeys.” On the right side is a head shot of Malvina, a White woman in her 20s with dark hair & gold hoop earrings that are partially hidden by a black hat.

ALT On the left side – which has a teal background – there is the following mustard coloured text: “Ink Cypher, edited by Ian Abbott” “Dodzi K. Aveh” “Afrikan Dancers as Embodied Archives: Contemporary Movements as Evolving Archives” “Afro Buck is about them creating an identity in the Krump space and should not be seen as a pollution of Krump or a change of its narrative because at the heart of Krump he sees the dance movement as having roots in traditional west African dances. Smack sees Krump as a tool and decided to look within himself to find what roots he could express using it. On the right hand is a head and torso photograph of Dodzi, a Black male in his mid twenties, with black hair in short braids, some of which have beads in them. He has a thin beard which covers his jawline. He is holding a microphone on stage and looks off to the left. He’s wearing a black t-shirt, sunglasses and several items of jewellery including a ring, bracelet & a shell necklace.

ALT On the left side – which has a teal background – there is the following mustard coloured text: “Ink Cypher, edited by Ian Abbott” “Funda Oral and Danielle V. Schoon” ““Hip Hop is my Country”: Breaking on the Move between Istanbul and Berlin” “Amigo told us how he grew up with his uncle in a small village in western Turkey where the local davulcu (a drummer who plays at important social events, like weddings and during Ramadan to wake Muslims up before fasting begins) employed him as a dancing bear. Tapping into his Anatolian roots, Amigo became the first Berlin Hip Hop artist to combine breaking with other elements and create a fusion style called Zeybreak. On the right is a photo of Funda, a woman in her fifties with mediterranean heritage with short brown wavy hair. She is smiling at the camera and wears an olive top, stud earrings and shaded by a tree.

ALT On the left side – which has a teal background – there is the following mustard coloured text: “Ink Cypher, edited by Ian Abbott” “Danielle V. Schoon and Funda Oral” ““Hip Hop is my Country”: Breaking on the Move between Istanbul and Berlin” “Amigo told us how he grew up with his uncle in a small village in western Turkey where the local davulcu (a drummer who plays at important social events, like weddings and during Ramadan to wake Muslims up before fasting begins) employed him as a dancing bear. The folk dances of Anatolia often employ the movements of animals or evocation of their qualities. Replicating the movements as he told us the story, Amigo explained how, at 8 years old, he would pull a fur over his head and embody the spirit of a bear. On the right is a photo of Danielle, a White woman in her thirties with short brown hair in a side parting. She is smiling at the camera and wears a brown jacket and brown scarf.