Recording of the week: The first recording of a complete piano concerto

This week’s selection comes from Jonathan Summers, Curator of Classical Music Recordings. Lockdown has given us the chance to listen to music while working from home and revisit well known recordings that we may not have had the opportunity to hear for a while. Recently I listened again to the…

Eid Mubarak: Celebrations marking the end of Ramadan and the beginning of a new month

In today’s blog, Charlotte Wardley, Project Support Officer for Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH), shares some recordings from our sound archive related to Eid. Charlotte is joined by Saba Syed, Chair of the British Library’s BAME Network, to talk about Ramadan and Eid. Today is Eid, marking the end of…

Recording of the Week: ‘We showed them that we could do it as good as them’

This week’s selection comes from Dr Rob Perks, formerly Lead Curator of Oral History. Women of Steel (2017), Barker’s Pool, Sheffield. Women of Steel is a bronze sculpture that commemorates the women of Sheffield who worked in the city’s steel industry during the First World War and Second World War….

Games in the Woods: getting creative during the Urban Tree Festival

Ever wanted to create a game inspired by trees? Well now’s your chance! The British Library will be running Games in the Woods, a tree-themed online game jam as part of this year’s Urban Tree Festival which takes place from 15 to 23 May 2021. The festival, now in its…

‘The most important thing is to hear the voice of the Earth’: revisiting a Buddhist temple in Fukushima

This week (29 April – 5 May) in Japan welcomes the…