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27th October: Your Window to the World

A camera phone is held up to photograph a busy road scene. The text reads 2020 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage Your Window to the World.

Esther Gill writes about World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

Posted byunlockingoursoundheritage26th Oct 202026th Oct 2020Posted inThe UOSH Team, UncategorizedTags:Audio preservation, UNESCO, UOSH, World Day for Audiovisual HeritageLeave a comment on 27th October: Your Window to the World

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.

Posted byunlockingoursoundheritage12th Oct 202015th Oct 2020Posted inUOSH CollectionsTags:2000, East Sussex, Flooding, lewes, oral history, River Ouse

Repairing a Damaged Cassette Reel

A black compact cassette tape with a white and blue label.

Duncan Harrison reflects on the challenge of repairing a tape cassette.

Posted byunlockingoursoundheritage29th Sep 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:brighton, cassettes, history, oral history, Tape, unlocking our sound heritageLeave a comment on Repairing a Damaged Cassette Reel

Living on the Forest

Esther Gill writes about the richness of the Ashdown Forest Oral History Collection.

Posted byunlockingoursoundheritage6th Aug 202017th Aug 2020Posted inUOSH CollectionsTags:Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, High Weald, oral history, Rural lifeLeave a comment on Living on the Forest

Creative Uses of Tape: Cassette Culture

Duncan Harrison writes about ‘cassette culture’ and why your old cassettes may contain magic.

Posted byunlockingoursoundheritage7th Jul 202029th Jul 2020Posted inCreative Uses of TapeTags:cassette culture, cassettes, home recording, post punk, unlocking our sound heritageLeave a comment on Creative Uses of Tape: Cassette Culture

Creative Uses of Tape

Duncan Harrison looks back at how magnetic tape came to be used creatively in the 20th century.

Posted byunlockingoursoundheritage14th May 202029th Jul 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:daphne oram, delia derbyshire, Halim El-Dabh, Musique concrete, pierre schaeffer, radiophonic workshop, Tape, unlocking our sound heritage1 Comment on Creative Uses of Tape

It’s a good time to save your memories

Katie Tavini writes about why ‘right now’ is a good time to think about preserving any photos you have stored on CD.

Posted byunlockingoursoundheritage7th May 202029th Jul 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:CD-R1 Comment on It’s a good time to save your memories

Audio preservation in lockdown

Esther Gill considers: how does a audio preservation project work in lockdown?

Posted byunlockingoursoundheritage5th May 202022nd Oct 2020Posted inThe UOSH TeamTags:2020, Covid19, Lockdown, Project managementLeave a comment on Audio preservation in lockdown

What is a vinyl record player?

Student volunteer Eli asks: what is vinyl? How does it work? Why is it so popular?

Posted byunlockingoursoundheritage30th Apr 202030th Jul 2020Posted inUOSH VolunteersTags:audio, cataloguing, charity, community culture, community project, culture, digital, digitising, history, nostalgia, project, record, record player, sound, sounds, vintage, vinyl, what is vinylLeave a comment on What is a vinyl record player?

Meet the volunteers: Nancy Jones

Volunteer Nancy reflects on her work on the Lewes U3A Oral History Archive.

Posted byunlockingoursoundheritage23rd Apr 202030th Jul 2020Posted inUOSH VolunteersTags:audio, brighton, charity, community culture, community project, culture, digital, digitising, history, interview, lewes, preservation, project, sound, sounds, vintage, volunteer, volunteering, world war 2, world war two, ww2Leave a comment on Meet the volunteers: Nancy Jones

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