The project archive of the 2017 Judaica laboratory phase contains approximately 2TB of audiovisual materials: primarily audiovisual recordings generated by the DCTV method, as well as recorded audio conversations, photos, and video essays.
The War Widows' Stories website hosts all transcripts and recordings of the oral history interviews we have conducted in the course of the War Widows' Stories project, and they can be access and downloaded for free by anyone. Recordings can be streamed or downloaded; transcripts can be read and searched online or downloaded as PDFs.
This database brings together for the first time poems written in response to the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861-65. They are presented with commentary, audio recitations and musical performances. The crisis was caused by the American Civil War and, as well as poems from British local newspapers, poems published in America are included commenting on the relationship between the US, Britain, cotton, and slavery.
5 oral history interviews recorded by in 2016 by Annebella Pollen for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project The Cultural History of the British Woodcraft Movement 1916-2016. The object of this project was to create a permanent history of the Woodcraft movement through life stories of those who participated in the organisations as children or adult members. These organisations included, but were not limited to, The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift and the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry. The following audio recordings and associated documentation have been deposited at the British Library: • 5 oral history interviews (9 PCM WAV files, recorded at 44.1kHZ, 16 bit) • 5 content summaries, one per interview (.docx) • 5 original signed recording agreements, one per interview (paper copies).
Here you can search or browse our records of industrial workers and literary culture across Scotland and the North of England. We have entries for individuals, for literary works (many including transcriptions of poems, songs or prose extracts), and for associations that sponsored literary activities and were connected to industry.
A collection of modelled and measured acoustic data from locations across the world, with data available in a variety of spatial audio formats. Also supported with a set of online anechoic recordings and acoustic analysis tools.
This is e a digital catalogue of 230 songs from the medieval period to the early nineteenth century, categorised according to generic type, musical incipit and other features and thus permitting for the first time comparison of songs distant in time but linked across history by melody, form or audience. Facsimile images of manuscript and early printed editions are provided, as also modern musical annotation and commentaries on each song.
This is a fully transcribed and annotated corpus of oral narrative in Modern French. There are 87 stories told by 18 storytellers. The narratives are live recordings of storytelling in authentic contexts. All form part of the recorded collection of the Conservatoire de Litterature Orale in Vendome, France, with permission from the Artistic Director. The narratives are transcribed and annotated using the conventions of the Text Encoding Initiative. A full set of tags has been designed to annotate a variety of syntactic and stylistic features and these are annotated throughout the corpus. Full metadata is contained in the Header of each document: this includes information on the tagset, details of the recording contexts, as well as sociolinguistic information on the storytellers (regional origin, age, educational profile, gender). The corpus can be accesse via the website or via the Oxford Text Archive.
