This week’s selection comes from George Brierley, Audio Project Cataloguer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. If current world politics are getting you down, this recording provides a fun and fascinating glimpse into the quirky world of UK politics and pop culture. David Edward Sutch (1940-1999), better known as Screaming Lord…

The new content strategy from the British Library, Enabling Access for Everyone, includes a section on COVID-19, showing how different collecting sections of the Library have responded to the pandemic. Listed among what we have collected are radio broadcasts from some sixty stations, national and regional. This is the first…

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 great resource for academic linguists, school teachers and their students alike, as well as…

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. The two unnamed musicians, photographed by Roger Waldron on 23…

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.