Keep Sounds was 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.
Unlocking Our Sound Heritage ran from 2018-2021, based at The Keep Archives in Brighton. Over its three years, the project digitised and catalogued over 3250 at-risk sound recordings held in archives and museums across the South East. It also provided training on preserving, cataloguing and working with sound recordings; developed a programme of public events on the theme of ‘listening’; worked with artists and community groups; and cleared the copyright on over 700 recordings to go on a new British Library website.
For a bit more information about the project, see a film about our work: The journey of a tape.
For any queries relating to the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project at The Keep, please contact: the.keep@eastsussex.gov.uk.
Recent Blogs
Getting To Know Eda Moore
Audio Preservation Engineer Duncan Harrison talks about working with a small collection of audio tapes from the archive of Salisbury film maker Eda Moore.
Listening to Sussex’s Special Collections
Esther Gill writes about sound recordings in the University of Sussex’s Special Collections.
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.
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