Recording of the week: Women’s work on the record

This week’s post comes from Myriam Fellous-Sigrist, Data protection and Rights Clearance Officer. Above: Wartime Activities, women picking fruit, Bedfordshire, 1941. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Source: LSE Library. One of the many joys of oral history is learning about unexpected topics. Whether recording an interview or discovering another interviewer’s…




Recording of the week: What does the UK sound like?

This week’s post comes from Steve Cleary, Lead Curator, Literary and Creative Recordings. Above: Paul Cheese in Merthyr Tydfil. Photo copyright © Paul Cheese. This week we are pleased to feature a video from musician Paul Cheese which showcases a singularly unusual creative project. It is a musical piece he…




Recording of the week: ‘Living open-handedly’

This week’s selection comes from Holly Gilbert who was, until recently, Cataloguer of Digital Multimedia Collections at the British Library. Photo of Paddy Taggart & Michael McEvoy © BBC One of the many highlights of working with the Listening Project collection for nearly a decade has been the joy of…




Postcard from Dumre

Rahul Giri is one of the British Library’s Resonations artists-in-residence. Yee I-Lann, whose recently published blog you can read, is our other Resonations artist-in-residence. Also known as _RHL, Rahul Giri is a producer and DJ based in Bangalore, India. While studying broadcast journalism, Rahul became one half of the duo…




Postcard from Dumre

Rahul Giri is one of our Resonations artists-in-residence alongside Yee I-Lann, whose recently published blog you can read online. Also known as _RHL, Rahul Giri is a producer and DJ based in Bangalore, India. While studying broadcast journalism, Rahul became one half of the duo Sulk Station, whose work has…