A brief look at the Bangladesh Liberation War through the holdings of the BLDS Legacy Collection One of the main aims of the British Library for Development Studies Legacy Collection (BLDS) project is outreach and promotion. As part of this…
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Listening to the Most Hated Man in America – Part 2
A glimpse into the audio archive of Harvey Matusow By Duncan Harrison – UOSH Audio preservation engineer A Political Career on Tape The first thing to be aware of is that this audio content does not really provide a chronological…
Tagged with: America, anti-communist, archive, audio, avant-garde, Communism, FBI, Harvey Matusow, interviews, Joseph McCarthy, music, Sound, USA, yo-yo
Posted in The Keep, UOSH (Unlocking Our Sound Heritage)
Posted in The Keep, UOSH (Unlocking Our Sound Heritage)
Listening to the most hated man in America – Part 1
A glimpse into the audio archive of Harvey Matusow By Duncan Harrison – UOSH Audio preservation engineer The Sound of Mr. Matusow As with everything else in the last 18 months, the work of the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH)…
Tagged with: America, anti-communist, archive, audio, avant-garde, Communism, FBI, Harvey Matusow, interviews, Joseph McCarthy, music, Sound, USA, yo-yo
Posted in Special Collections, The Keep, UOSH (Unlocking Our Sound Heritage)
Posted in Special Collections, The Keep, UOSH (Unlocking Our Sound Heritage)
Listening to Maureen Colquhoun
By Esther Gill – Hub project manager – Unlocking our Sound Heritage It is Monday 1st February 2021, the UK is in lockdown and I am working from home, listening to a radio interview (UTK006/498) from 1973 with a councillor…
Tagged with: Government, LGBTQAI+, Maureen Colquhoun, Politics, Women's rights
Posted in The Keep, UOSH (Unlocking Our Sound Heritage)
Posted in The Keep, UOSH (Unlocking Our Sound Heritage)
There ain’t no party like an East Slope party
By Karen Watson – University of Sussex Archivist These days, most people know there ain’t no party like an S Club Party (well if you were born before 1990) but at Sussex in the early 1980s East Slope parties held…
Tagged with: ACCA, Alumni, Drama, Gardner Arts Centre, Parties, SUDS, University of Sussex
Posted in Special Collections, The Keep
Posted in Special Collections, The Keep
We’ll meet again – or how I gambled away Vera Lynn’s autograph and ended up in a Zambian jungle with a bunch of hippies…
By Danny Millum – BLDS Metadata and Discovery Officer Normally when you tell your family / friends about what you do, unless you’re a fireman or a nurse they just zone out (especially when your job title is Metadata Discovery…
Tagged with: African journals, African pamphlets, Burma, Zambia
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS, The Library
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS, The Library
You think blended flex with a touch of hybridity is tough? Try a Soviet-era correspondence course
By Danny Millum – BLDS Metadata and Discovery Officer One of the many consequences of the pandemic has been to accelerate the development and adoption of new teaching methods, with all the associated stress for teachers and students of having…
Tagged with: Education, India, Literacy, Russia, Teaching methods, USSR
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS, The Library
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS, The Library
Well that’s a lot of pamphlets….
BLDS Legacy Collection By Caroline Marchant-Wallis – BLDS Metadata and Discovery Officer I was chatting to my Librarian mentor recently about how we approached starting the BLDS Legacy Collection project, and I realised it was a good question. What did…
Tagged with: Cataloguing1, Classification, Grey literature, Pamphlets, Project management
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS, The Library
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS, The Library
Collections reading group
By Richard Wragg – Collections Manager For the last few months, the Collections Team have been meeting for a reading group. The texts we have chosen to discuss have all had a focus on decolonisation, equality and diversity. The reading…