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 Carp… read more
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 speaker… read more
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. read more
This week’s selection comes from Camille Johnston, Oral History Assistant Archivist. This week we’re travelling back to 1950s London, where a young Peter Blake was learning to draw. Peter Blake is an English Pop artist who famously co-created the cover… read more
Tom Lean looks at 40 years since the release of the Acorn System 1 through An Oral History of British Science. read more