This week’s selection comes from Harriet Roden, Digital Learning Content Developer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. The British Library’s Sound Archive plays host to an extensive collection of recordings of English accents and dialects. They’re a great resource for academic linguists, school teachers and their students alike, as well as…

This week’s selection comes from Sarah Coggrave, Rights Clearance Officer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. In 1978, Roger Waldron was staying at an elephant camp in Chitwan, Nepal. One night, two musicians emerged from the darkness and began to play. The two unnamed musicians, photographed by Roger Waldron on 23…

On 20 November 1945 the first of the Nuremberg trials began. Hear British prosecutor Hartley Shawcross describe his memories of Hermann Goering in this blogpost by Dr Rob Perks, Lead Curator of Oral History at the British Library.

This week’s selection comes from Catherine Smith, Audio Project Cataloguer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. “20121113-Nepal-trekking-5-Pokhara-ARZH5002E” by zhushman is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Tihar (also called Diwali) is a five day Hindu festival celebrated in Nepal. It usually takes place in the Nepali month, Kartik (end of October to…

This week’s selection comes from Yrja Thorsdottir, Digital Learning Content Developer for Unlocking Our Sound Heritage. I love singing to myself at my desk as I’m working from home but you will never catch me singing anywhere someone can hear me. Pining for karaoke parties? Absolutely not! Why? I don’t…