This week’s selection comes from Adonis Leboho, Communications Intern for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. Last Thursday, people all over the world marked Mandela Day through commemorative events celebrating the legacy of the heroic anti-apartheid revolutionary. Nelson Mandela fought against institutionalised racial segregation in South Africa for decades, enduring twenty-seven years…

Winifred Atwell in the late 1950s (1LP0248992 BL collections) Guest blog by Edison Fellow Uchenna Ngwe who is studying Black classical musicians in Britain before 1960 Little is known about the early years of Winifred Atwell but she is thought to have been born in either 1910 or 1914. By…

Where were you when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon? In this blog Dr Sally Horrocks pulls together recollections from the Oral History archives…

The Magnetic Tape Alert Project is an initiative of the Information for All Programme (IFAP) Working Group on Information Preservation. Photo: Bernhard Graf, Vienna Phonogrammarchiv Today’s knowledge of the linguistic and cultural diversity of humanity is widely based on magnetic tape recordings produced over the past 60 years. Magnetic audio…

Alan Turing as told through An Oral History of British Science by those who worked with him in Manchester.