Ripples of history: Sıbızğı recordings from northern Xinjiang
The Sıbızğı Recordings from Northern Xinjiang Coll… read more
Author Archives: British Library
Recording of the week: Recalling the 1981 Hunger Strike at Maze Prison
Photo of the inside of Maze Prison, licensed under CC BY 2.0. The clips for this Recording of the Week come from Pat Sheehan’s 2019 interview in the Voices of Our National Health Service collection. The 3rd October 2023 marks thirty-two years since the… read more
Emmanuelle Olivier’s ‘Damara-Nama’ recordings and their return to Sesfontein, Namibia
In March 2022 a full set of digital copies of recordings of ‘Damara-Nama’ musics now archived in the British Library was returned to the Indigenous rights holders in Sesfontein, north-west Namibia. These recordings were made in 1999 by French ethnomusi… read more
Unlocking Our Hidden Collections: Sue Steward and Edmundo Ros
Above: Edmundo Ros in Amsterdam, 1957. Photo by Harry Pot. The Unlocking Our Hidden Collections initiative is the British Library challenging itself. With over 170 million items in the Library’s collections and an average of over 8,000 new items added … read more
Recording of the week: Chanting
Many yoga classes begin and end with the practice of chanting. Chanting aims to purify the mind by increasing both the mind and body’s attention. This in turn helps various people focus on the present, silencing the noise around them by releasing a smo… read more