This week’s selection comes from Harriet Roden, Digital Learning Content Developer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. The British Library’s Sound Archive plays host to an extensive collection of recordings of English accents and dialects. They’re a grea… read more
This week’s selection comes from Sarah Coggrave, Rights Clearance Officer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. In 1978, Roger Waldron was staying at an elephant camp in Chitwan, Nepal. One night, two musicians emerged from the darkness and began to play. … read more
On 20 November 1945 the first of the Nuremberg trials began. Hear British prosecutor Hartley Shawcross describe his memories of Hermann Goering in this blogpost by Dr Rob Perks, Lead Curator of Oral History at the British Library. read more
This week’s selection comes from Catherine Smith, Audio Project Cataloguer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. “20121113-Nepal-trekking-5-Pokhara-ARZH5002E” by zhushman is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Tihar (also called Diwali) is a five day Hindu fest… read more
This week’s selection comes from Yrja Thorsdottir, Digital Learning Content Developer for Unlocking Our Sound Heritage. I love singing to myself at my desk as I’m working from home but you will never catch me singing anywhere someone can hear me. Pinin… read more