Last week, the British Library launched a £40m ($60m) crowdfunding initiative to preserve its archive of over six million sound recordings. The Save our Sounds project is concentrated on remediating ...

Last year, the British Library began the "Save our Sounds" project, with the aim of accelerating the digitisation of millions upon millions of lost audio recordings held in its vast archive. The ...

Over a century of noise lives on in the vast collection of the British Library’s sound archives. There’s the slightly high voice of James Joyce, reading an excerpt from Ulysses. A warbling recording ...

The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) is streaming nearly 8,000 Syliphone tracks at British Library Sounds. It’s the first online sound initiative from EAP. The extensive Syliphone ...

For most of us, thinking about museums and archives will conjure up images of physical relics; faded books, paintings and trinkets discovered beneath the soil. But now, the British Library is fighting ...

If you enjoy music, nature, history or anything that's good about the world, you're going to want to pay attention right now. For years, the British Library has worked to preserve and archive some of ...

The project is set to create about 100,000sq ft of new library space A £1.1bn extension of the British Library is expected to start in 2026, it has been confirmed. The project, which is set to create ...

Of the roughly 250,000 known marine species, scientists think all ~126 marine mammals emit sounds – the ‘thwop’, ‘muah’, and ‘boop’s of a humpback whale, for example, or the boing of a minke whale.