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 art for the Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club…

Tom Lean looks at 40 years since the release of the Acorn System 1 through An Oral History of British Science.

This week’s selection comes from Dr Eva del Rey, Curator of Drama and Literature Recordings and Digital Performance. You may have seen this extraordinary ventilation shaft known as the Camberwell Submarine on Akerman Rd. London SW9. It was built in the 1970s as part of an underground boiler room and…

This week’s selection comes from Andrea Zarza Canova, Curator of World and Traditional Music. The Sora people, are one of the oldest communities known in India. They are mainly situated in the hilly border area of the east Indian states Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. The Sora live on the hill…

To celebrate International Women’s Day, three colleagues from the British Library Sound Archive have handpicked three oral history interviews from National Life Stories collections.