Keep Sounds is part of Unlocking Our Sound Heritage, a British Library project to preserve, catalogue, and give access to rare and unique sound recordings from across the UK.
Keep Sounds is based at The Keep Archives in Brighton. We work to preserve historic sound collections from archives, museums and libraries across the south east of England.
Follow us on Twitter @KeepSounds for updates on our work or take a look at our recent film about our work: The journey of a tape.
Recent Blogs
Ghost stories for Christmas
Angela Bachini listens to ghosts in the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage collections.
The social importance of oral history
Jen Grasso writes about oral history & working on Windrush interviews.
Raised voices
Henry Rowsell reflects on working on sound heritage, digitisation projects & less-heard voices.
Brighton’s West Pier: from 1975 to today
Alison Hulme writes about Brighton’s West Pier, in 1975 & today.
Libraries On Air
Natasha Witts writes about recordings in the BBC Radio Brighton archive featuring libraries & librarians.
20 years on: the Lewes floods of 2000
Nancy Jones writes about listening to the experiences of the people caught up in the Lewes floods.
Repairing a Damaged Cassette Reel
Duncan Harrison reflects on the challenge of repairing a tape cassette.
Living on the Forest
Esther Gill writes about the richness of the Ashdown Forest Oral History Collection.
Creative Uses of Tape: Cassette Culture
Duncan Harrison writes about ‘cassette culture’ and why your old cassettes may contain magic.
Creative Uses of Tape
Duncan Harrison looks back at how magnetic tape came to be used creatively in the 20th century.
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