This week’s selection comes from Greg Green, Audio Project Cataloguer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. With hundreds of recordings of birds from around East Africa, Myles E. W. North is a name that constantly crops up within the enormous collection of wildlife species reels here at the library. During his…

This week’s selection comes from Steve Cleary, Lead Curator of Literary and Creative Recordings. This week’s Recording of the week – composed of two recordings in fact, an A-side and a B-side – is drawn from the disc issued by the Columbia Gramophone Company to commemorate the opening of the…

This week’s selection comes from Michele Banal, Audio Project Cataloguer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. Husband and wife Mihaly and Gizella Halmagyi were a duo of professional musicians from Gyimes Valley, in the Romanian stretch of the Eastern Carpathians. Their home town Gyimesközéplok is part of a significant Hungarian-speaking enclave…

This week’s selection comes from Jonnie Robinson, Lead Curator of Spoken English. The widespread use among young speakers of sick [= ‘great, excellent’] follows the pattern of several slang terms in which the conventional meaning is inverted by speakers who subsequently use it as an all-purpose term of approval. The…

Forty years since Airey Neave was killed in a car bomb attack, Emmeline Ledgerwood uses oral history to look at his long-standing parliamentary interest in science and technology.