Chernobyl: Perspectives from the British Nuclear Industry
Reflections on the Chernobyl disaster in An Oral History of the Electricity Supply Industry.
Innovations in sound and art
Creative and personal responses from Royal College of Art students to British Library oral histories.
Recording of the week: wonderful Weingartner
This week’s selection comes from Jonathan Summers, Curator of Classical Music Recordings. This year is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte and next year is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven. Both men, known the world over by a single name, are joined in history…
The Stonewall Riots: I wouldn’t have missed it for the world
Photographer Leee Black Childers remembers the night that began the Stonewall Riots.
Michael Ryle and the development of the House of Commons select committee system
Forty years ago today the House of Commons debated proposals to restructure its select committee system. See this blog by Emmeline Ledgerwood to find out more.