Written by Kirsten Newell, Data Protection & Rights Clearance Officer. Last year, UOSH was lucky enough to interview the Subways about their 2004 win at the Glastonbury Festival New Bands competition. You can read more about the history of the Emerging… read more
The Eric Raff 1924 Efate, New Hebrides Cylinder Collection (C83) is a set of twelve black wax cylinders recorded in 1924 on the island of Efate in Vanuatu. The collection was previously known as the RAI Vanuatu Cylinder Collection as the cylinders came… read more
This week’s selection comes from Dr Madeline White, Curator of Oral History. One way or another, food is at the heart of everyday life for almost everyone on the planet. We plan our days around it, share it with friends, watch TV shows about it, and fo… read more
This week’s selection comes from George Brierley, Audio Project Cataloguer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. During my time working as a cataloguer on the Unlocking our Sound Heritage (UOSH) project, I have been fortunate to catalogue a diverse range o… read more
Since the end of August 2021 a new British Library audio exhibition ‘Listen: The Story of Recorded Sound’ has been open to visitors to Pingshan Library, Shenzhen, China. It will run until 20 February 2022. Visitors will be able to hear an eclectic mix … read more