This week’s selection comes from Dr Janet Topp Fargion, Lead Curator of World and Traditional Music. Northcote Whitridge Thomas The Library’s World and Traditional Music collections include some of the world’s earliest ethnographic recordings, made on … read more
This week’s selection comes from Cathy Courtney, Project Director for Artists’ Lives, and Camille Johnston, Oral History Assistant Archivist. Elsbeth Juda (1911-2014), was born in Germany. She and her husband Hans Juda (referred to as ‘Hansie’ in this … read more
Jonnie Robinson, Lead Curator of Spoken English, writes: This year marks the sixth annual British Library Sports Word of the Year (SWOTY) review. While I can’t claim it’s a major fixture on the annual awards circuit, six does, at least, have some sport… read more
AWATE joined the British Library this summer as Artist-in-Residence for Unlocking Our Sound Heritage, the British Library’s major project to digitally preserve and widely share the nation’s rare and at-risk sounds. During his five-month residency, AWAT… read more
This week’s selection comes from Steve Cleary, Lead Curator of Literary and Creative Recordings. Apologies, this may be our shortest ever ‘Recording of the Week’. It does however provide an excuse to highlight a colourful product of the late 1960s coun… read more