This week’s selection comes from Michele Banal, Audio Project Cataloguer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. Husband and wife Mihaly and Gizella Halmagyi were a duo of professional musicians from Gyimes Valley, in the Romanian stretch of the Eastern Carpathians. Their home town Gyimesközéplok is part of a significant Hungarian-speaking enclave…

This week’s selection comes from Jonnie Robinson, Lead Curator of Spoken English. The widespread use among young speakers of sick [= ‘great, excellent’] follows the pattern of several slang terms in which the conventional meaning is inverted by speakers who subsequently use it as an all-purpose term of approval. The…

Forty years since Airey Neave was killed in a car bomb attack, Emmeline Ledgerwood uses oral history to look at his long-standing parliamentary interest in science and technology.

This week’s selection comes from Camille Johnston, Oral History Assistant Archivist. This week we’re travelling back to 1950s London, where a young Peter Blake was learning to draw. Peter Blake is an English Pop artist who famously co-created the cover art for the Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club…

Tom Lean looks at 40 years since the release of the Acorn System 1 through An Oral History of British Science.