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Archival Sound Recordings is a British Library service which provides free online access to spoken word, music and environmental sounds from the British Library Sound Archive. The resource was created with funding from the JISC.

Background information
The Archival Sound Recordings project to digitise recordings from the British Library Sound Archive and make them available online began in 2004 and concluded in March 2009. In this period the project digitised over 32,000 recordings, created detailed metadata to describe the origin and content of each item, cleared the rights for academic and (where possible) public use and put them up online. The British Library Sound Archive will continue to add further material to the website as it becomes available.

Members of the public
Anyone with a Reader Pass can listen to any recording on the website from British Library reading rooms. In addition, where copyright permits, several thousand recordings can be played online from outside the Library.

UK Higher and Further Education
All recordings are available for streaming and download to members of licensed UK higher and further education institutions. Staff and students can access recordings by logging in with their Shibboleth or Open Athens password. Institution librarians can request a free license from the British Library

Classical Music
Pre-1957 recordings of works by:


 * J S Bach
 * Haydn
 * Mozart
 * Beethoven
 * Brahms

World and Traditional music
Field recordings and commercial releases from around the world:


 * David Rycroft Southern Africa recordings
 * Klaus Wachsmann Uganda recordings
 * Peter Cook Uganda Recordings
 * Decca West African recordings
 * Music from India
 * Ethnographic wax cylinders

Accents and Dialects
Examples of regional speech from around the UK:


 * Millenium Memory Bank
 * Survey of English Dialects

Arts, Literature and Performance
Radio programmes, literary readings and public debates:


 * African Writers' Club
 * Early spoken word recordings
 * St Mary-le-Bow public debates

Oral History
In-depth life history interviews:


 * Art, photography and architecture
 * Oral history of jazz in Britain
 * Eminent scientists
 * History of the Common Cold Unit
 * Jewish survivors of Holocaust
 * Oral history of recorded sound

Environment
Wildlife vocalisations and sounds of the industrial and natural worlds:


 * British Wildlife Recordings
 * Amphibians
 * Soundscapes

Links

 * The British Library


 * British Library Sound Archive