Two years into an ambitious, nationwide project, the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage team recently celebrated reaching the milestone of 100,000 digitised sound recordings. Supported by funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Unlocking Our Sound H… read more
This week’s selection comes from Jonnie Robinson, Lead Curator of Spoken English. Watching a child acquire its first language is a fascinating process. At a certain age, children naturally apply rules drawn from their exposure to their mother tongue to… read more
This week’s selection comes from Adonis Leboho, Communications Intern for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. Last Thursday, people all over the world marked Mandela Day through commemorative events celebrating the legacy of the heroic anti-apartheid revolut… read more
Winifred Atwell in the late 1950s (1LP0248992 BL collections) Guest blog by Edison Fellow Uchenna Ngwe who is studying Black classical musicians in Britain before 1960 Little is known about the early years of Winifred Atwell but she is thought to have … read more
Where were you when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon? In this blog Dr Sally Horrocks pulls together recollections from the Oral History archives… read more