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The Story of Sound part 2: “Canned music” and a war of formats

Posted on June 26, 2020 by nhudsonnro

In the first part of the Story of Sound blog series, we travelled back in time to the late 1800s to discover who the first inventor was to create a machine which both recorded and played back sound, what the … Continue reading →

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Britten Pears Archive

Posted on June 20, 2020 by nhudsonnro

Way back in January, when we were wrapped up in our warm layers, and indoor hibernation was for no reason other than the cold weather, the Norfolk Record Office Unlocking Our Sound Heritage team hit the road. The destination? The … Continue reading →

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The Story of Sound: The Talking Machine

Posted on May 26, 2020 by nhudsonnro

Whether it was rushing to Woolworth’s to bag the latest CD, patiently recording songs off the radio onto compact cassette tape, or seeking through the slick sleeves of vinyl at a local record store, the analogue formats of recorded sound … Continue reading →

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Volunteering with Unlocking Our Sound Heritage

Posted on May 1, 2020 by nhudsonnro

Unlocking Our Sound Heritage is a UK wide project chaired by the British Library to preserve the nation’s sound archives. Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) has ten project hubs around the country, working … Continue reading →

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Royal Greenwich Observatory

Posted on March 12, 2020 by nhudsonnro

The ‘Unlocking Our Sound Heritage’ Project has received many collections for digitisation since it began. One such collection is the sound archives of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO), currently housed within the Cambridge University Archives. This collection has a vast … Continue reading →

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National Story Telling Week

Posted on February 7, 2020 by nhudsonnro

Did you hear about the time that cows ran loose up Norwich’s King Street, and ate the vegetable displays in a shop? How about the time a boy threw a snow ball at a post man by accident, and was … Continue reading →

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