Jonnie Robinson, Lead Curator of Spoken English, writes: We can all probably remember the first time we met a Scouser [= ‘person from Liverpool’] face to face. Leafing through Tony Crowley’s excellent Liverpool English Dictionary immediately transported me back to 1983 and a fellow first year student in halls of… read more
This week’s selection comes from Dr Janet Topp Fargion, Lead Curator of World and Traditional Music. Born in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a writer, poet, artist and teacher. He was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1913, for his poetry collection Gitanjali…. read more
This week’s selection comes from Jonathan Summers, Curator of Classical Music Recordings. Those of us brought up in the 1980s and 1990s only hearing Haydn performed on period instruments missed a lot. While these were innovative and fascinating, older recordings of symphony orchestras – with large string sections performing Classical… read more
This week’s selection comes from Holly Gilbert, Cataloguer of Digital Multimedia Collections. Friends, Vanessa and Felicity, talk about their work as soul midwives which involves working with people who are dying to ensure that their death is personal and dignified. They describe the different ways that people approach and experience… read more
This week’s selection comes from Tom Lean, Project Interviewer for An Oral History of British Science. Like many women in the 1960s, Stephanie Shirley left her job in the computer industry after becoming a mother. At the time, women were expected to cut short their professional careers and stay at… read more