100 years of women MPs as told through the History of Parliament Oral History Project.

Cheryl Tipp, Curator of Wildlife & Environmental Sounds writes: The Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) gets a pretty bad rap. We’re all in love with bees but, when it comes to wasps, we’re not so enamoured. To be fair, they don’t help themselves. They fall into your pint, pester you at…

This week’s selection comes from Camille Johnston, Oral History Assistant Archivist. To celebrate the launch of Voices of art we’re listening to artist Sheila Girling’s (1924-2015) description of fellow painter, Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011). Helen Frankenthaler was an American abstract expressionist artist. Girling gives a detailed illustration of Frankenthaler’s gestural and…

In 1995, the British Library began documenting oral histories of British architects through the National Life Stories series Architects’ Lives. The following year the project looked close to home and published an interview with the architect of the library’s St. Pancras location. In twenty-seven parts available on the BL’s Sounds…

UOSH Volunteer and poet Amy Evans Bauer invites you to write your own creative response to the WordBank: Calling all listers, logophiles, poets, crossworders and puzzleers! The sheer variety of spoken English in the UK and beyond befits a celebration in kaleidoscopic form, so we’ve decided to host our first…