Recording of the week: Women’s work on the record

This week’s post comes from Myriam Fellous-Sigrist, Data protection and Rights Clearance Officer. Above: Wartime Activities, women picking fruit, Bedfordshire, 1941. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Source: LSE Library. One of the many joys of oral history is learning about unexpected topics. Whether recording an interview or discovering another interviewer’s…




Recording of the week: What does the UK sound like?

This week’s post comes from Steve Cleary, Lead Curator, Literary and Creative Recordings. Above: Paul Cheese in Merthyr Tydfil. Photo copyright © Paul Cheese. This week we are pleased to feature a video from musician Paul Cheese which showcases a singularly unusual creative project. It is a musical piece he…




Recording of the week: ‘Living open-handedly’

This week’s selection comes from Holly Gilbert who was, until recently, Cataloguer of Digital Multimedia Collections at the British Library. Photo of Paddy Taggart & Michael McEvoy © BBC One of the many highlights of working with the Listening Project collection for nearly a decade has been the joy of…




Postcard from Dumre

Rahul Giri is one of our Resonations artists-in-residence alongside Yee I-Lann, whose recently published blog you can read online. Also known as _RHL, Rahul Giri is a producer and DJ based in Bangalore, India. While studying broadcast journalism, Rahul became one half of the duo Sulk Station, whose work has…




Postcard from Dumre

Rahul Giri is one of the British Library’s Resonations artists-in-residence. Yee I-Lann, whose recently published blog you can read, is our other Resonations artist-in-residence. Also known as _RHL, Rahul Giri is a producer and DJ based in Bangalore, India. While studying broadcast journalism, Rahul became one half of the duo…