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… read more
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 F… read more
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 lib… read more
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 i… read more
This week’s selection comes from Tom Miles, Metadata Coordinator for Europeana Sounds. This song, recorded in Kamuli, Uganda in 1954 by the pioneering ethnomusicologist Klaus Wachsmann, is of two ntongoli players, Kaija and Isake Ibande, from the Soga … read more