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Speaking archives! Sound recordings from our holdings.

Speaking archives

Catalogue links

Click on the links below to find catalogue descriptions of various types of sound recording in our holdings. There are links to edited highlights further down the page.

Interviews and reminiscences
Speeches and discussions
Training
Music and drama
Diaries
Broadcasts
Ceremonies
All digitised recordings (results can be filtered by categories above)
Sectors: digitised interview recordings listed according to employment sector.
Women workers: digitised interview recordings of women workers, managers and others listed according to employment sector.
Accents: digitised interview recordings listed according to regional and other accents.

Most of the recordings are on vulnerable formats such as cassette tapes.

In 2011 we began the long process of digitising them in order to preserve them and make them more accessible.

You can listen to the digitised recordings direct from the catalogue.