Geoff Webb on polio
For Disability History Month Dr Madeline White looks at Geoff Webb’s reminiscences of polio read more
Author Archives: British Library
Documenting Bengali music in Britain
Written by Val Harding and Julie Begum from the Swadhinata Trust ahead of their British Library event ‘Songs of Freedom: Celebrating Fifty Years of Bangladesh’ on 16 December 2021. In 2016 we set up an oral history project at the Swadhinata Trust aimin… read more
Nelson Freire – a great pianist remembered
Jonathan Summers and Nelson Freire (photo © Jonathan Summers) By Jonathan Summers, Curator of Classical Music When Brazilian Nelson Freire died last month at the age of seventy-seven, the world lost one of its greatest pianists. A naturally talented ch… read more
Recording of the Week: The musical pillars of a medieval Indian temple
This week’s selection comes from Jim Hickson, Audio Project Cataloguer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. In the British Library’s sound archive collections, we have a lot of recordings of temple music – various types of song and music in dedication to … read more
Gerry and Paula discuss Paula’s severe social anxiety
An interview from The Listening Project looked at for Disability History Month read more