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British Library Sound Archive

The British Library Sound Archive, formerly the British Institute of Recorded Sound; also known as the National Sound Archive (NSA),[1] in London, England is among the largest collections of recorded sound in the world, including music, spoken word and ambient recordings. It holds more than six million recordings,[2] including over a million discs and 200,000 tapes. These include commercial record releases (chiefly from the UK), radio broadcasts (many from the BBC Sound Archive), and privately made recordings.

British Library Sound Archive

96, Euston Road, London, England, NW1 2DB, United Kingdom

6,500,000 recordings

sounds.bl.uk

to preserve as much as possible of the nation's rare and unique sound recordings, including items from other UK national and regional collections and from other groups and individuals

to establish a national radio archive

to invest in new technology to enable the archive to receive music in born-digital formats

Classical music

and literature

Drama

Oral history

Moving images

[10] and jazz[11]

Popular music

[10]

Radio recordings

and dialects[12]

Spoken language

and other nature sounds

Wildlife

and traditional music

World

Publications[edit]

Playback, the bulletin of the British Library Sound Archive, was published free of charge from 1992 to 2010. All 44 issues are available online. A range of British Library CDs are available covering nature sounds, world music, historical speeches and recordings of famous poets, playwrights and authors.

Oral History strand.

Theatre Archive Project

free online access to over 90,000 sound tracks.

British Library Sounds

Conservation Manager of the National Sound Archive/British Library Sound Archive from 1986 to 2002.

Peter Copeland

an independent charitable trust within the Oral History section of the British Library.

National Life Stories

British Library Sound Archive web pages

The British Library Sound and Moving Image catalogue (SAMI)

British Library Sounds

Playback: the bulletin of the British Library Sound Archive

360° rotatable views of 13 machines

Online gallery: record players

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