This week’s selection comes from Cheryl Tipp, Curator of Wildlife & Environmental Sounds. The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia are renowned for their lush landscapes and rich biodiversity. Stretching from Queensland to New South Wales, this collection of rainforests represents 180 million years of our planet’s natural history. It’s here that…

Grace Robertson, pioneer of documentary photography, has died aged 90. Grace Robertson was interviewed by Alan Dein in 1993 for An Oral History of British Photography.

The British Library’s National Radio Archive pilot is collaborative venture, involving curators, technologists and three software and data partners. The day-to-day work of managing the capture of programmes, however, is mostly done by one person, our Broadcast Recordings Curator Neil McCowlen. Here he describes what it has been like keeping…

This week’s selection comes from Steve Cleary, Lead Curator of Literary and Creative Recordings. Above: British Library digitised image from The Poetical Works of Robert Browning (1888). Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright born in Camberwell, London. Like his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), whose great success as…

A tribute to Albert Roux, as told through his oral history interview.