This week’s selection comes from Catherine Smith, Audio Project Cataloguer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. Last autumn, while cataloguing the Neil Stevenson Collection made in Peru in the early seventies, I gradually started to develop a mental image… read more
Carlisle and Wellmon (BL shelfmark 1SS0009976) By Jonathan Summers, Curator of Classical Music For Black History Month this year, I was delighted to find early recordings of two African American musicians made in London. The piano duo team of Carlisle … read more
A new oral history collection looks at the role of women in the development of climbing and mountaineering read more
Written by Kirsten Newell, Data Protection & Rights Clearance Officer. Last year, UOSH was lucky enough to interview the Subways about their 2004 win at the Glastonbury Festival New Bands competition. You can read more about the history of the Emerging… read more
The Eric Raff 1924 Efate, New Hebrides Cylinder Collection (C83) is a set of twelve black wax cylinders recorded in 1924 on the island of Efate in Vanuatu. The collection was previously known as the RAI Vanuatu Cylinder Collection as the cylinders came… read more