This week’s selection comes from Tom Bench, Data Protection Rights Clearance Officer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. This recording features Don Prior, who was interviewed for Down To Earth, an oral history project about British horticulture. Like mo… read more
This week’s selection comes from Sarah Kirk-Browne, Cataloguer (Digital Multimedia Collections). ’45 RPM Elvis Presley Separate Ways b/w Always On My Mind’ by A.Currell. Creative Commons attribution CC BY-NC 2.0. Fifty years ago, on 29 March 1972, Elvi… read more
This week’s selection comes from Sarah O’Reilly, oral historian and interviewer for National Life Stories on the Authors’ Lives project. Enter the Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery on the upper ground floor of the British Library in London and on your… read more
This week’s selection comes from Steve Cleary, Lead Curator, Literary and Creative Recordings. As a curator in the British Library’s sound archive, members of the public often contact me about records or tapes that they might want to donate to the nati… read more
This week’s selection comes from Giulia Baldorilli, Sound and Vision Reference Specialist. If you could choose to go back in time, where would you go? Photo by Adam Winger on Unsplash. Nursery rhymes are something we never forget over the years. They h… read more