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Hear the voices behind the headlines
Jazz, calypso and poetry to the speeches of Marcus Garvey and personal reflections from some of the first Caribbean nurses to join the NHS: listen to the sounds of the Caribbean in our free exhibition Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land. |
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Late at the Library: Silent Disco with Time Out
Shhh! Think of the books! Celebrate our second Season of Sound (in silence, please) and pick your favourite as three DJs battle it out over separate wireless channels – with some gems from the Library’s sound archive thrown into the mix. |
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| For most of us, the songs of birds have an aesthetic appeal. Here are some of the best to be heard in Britain. |
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| Curator of Spoken English, Jonnie Robinson, takes a whistle-stop tour of British pop music. Why has London featured more prominently than anywhere else and what does this tell us about changes to London pronunciation over time? |
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| On 25 June the Library marked 20 years since its St Pancras building was officially opened, and looked forward to what the future holds. |
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A fond farewell to our Chief Librarian
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| As we bid goodbye to Caroline Brazier after 16 years, she gives us an exclusive peek into some of her highlights here. |
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Say you want a revolution
Once, culture came with leather patches on its elbows and spoke in a BBC accent. In this article, writer Hanif Kureishi explores how The Beatles influenced him as a teenager and how they changed the way we viewed culture forever. |
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