British Library Sounds (previously named Archival Sound Recordings) is a British Library service providing free online access to a diverse range of spoken word, music and environmental sounds from the British Library Sound Archive. Anyone with web access can use the service to search, browse and listen to 50,000 digitised recordings. Playback and download of an additional 22,000 recordings is available to Athens or Shibboleth users in UK higher and further education. The service was originally launched with funding by the Jisc.
There are over 20,000 hours of rarely heard audio material available online. Images and transcripts are also available for some recordings to further enrich the content.
Recordings may be searched by keywords or browsed by collection types, dates, languages, performer names and subjects. Several collections can be browsed using a map interface.
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BritishLibrarySounds (previously named Archival Sound Recordings) is a BritishLibrary service providing free online access to a diverse range of spoken...
The BritishLibrarySound Archive, formerly the British Institute of Recorded Sound; also known as the National Sound Archive (NSA), in London, England...
upper-classes Sounds Familiar? Archived 22 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine – Listen to examples of received pronunciation on the BritishLibrary's 'Sounds Familiar'...
Music and Customs Collection - World and traditional music | BritishLibrary - Sounds". sounds.bl.uk. Retrieved 14 March 2021. "Hunting the wren - Steve...
traditional music | BritishLibrary - Sounds". sounds.bl.uk. Retrieved 2021-06-16. "Search: Canada". Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. D36A - archival cassette...
327. "Survey of English Dialects - Accents and dialects | BritishLibrary - Sounds". sounds.bl.uk. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021. Retrieved...
Peter Kennedy Collection - World and traditional music | BritishLibrary - Sounds". sounds.bl.uk. Archived from the original on 22 October 2021. Retrieved...
| BritishLibrary - Sounds". sounds.bl.uk. Retrieved 24 May 2021. "Hilton, Shropshire - Survey of English Dialects - Accents and dialects | British Library...
ethnographic wax cylinders - World and traditional music | BritishLibrary - Sounds". sounds.bl.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-03. "Shenandoah - Percy Grainger...
ethnographic wax cylinders - World and traditional music | BritishLibrary - Sounds". sounds.bl.uk. Retrieved 2023-06-23. "Stanley Slade, Bristol (Kennedy...
The UOSH project forms part of the core programme 'Save Our Sounds' led by the BritishLibrary and involving a consortium of ten regional and national archival...
collections" of the British Museum in 1753. It is now one of the major collections of the Department of Manuscripts of the BritishLibrary. Cotton was of a...
ethnographic wax cylinders - World and traditional music | BritishLibrary - Sounds". sounds.bl.uk. Retrieved 22 August 2020. "Versions of "Drunken Sailor"...
ethnographic wax cylinders - World and traditional music | BritishLibrary - Sounds". sounds.bl.uk. Retrieved 6 December 2021. "Murder of Maria Marten/...
dialects across the UK on the BritishLibrary's 'Sounds Familiar' website Accents and dialects from the BritishLibrarySound Archive Accents of English...
Barleycorn". BritishLibrarySounds. Retrieved 25 May 2022. "Sir John Barleycorn (VWML Song Index SN19068)". Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Retrieved...
ethnographic wax cylinders - World and traditional music | BritishLibrary - Sounds". sounds.bl.uk. Retrieved 2021-03-20. "The Seeds of Love (Roud Folksong...
of large sound archives include the BritishLibrarySound Archive, Internet Archive's Audio Archive, and the Australian National Film and Sound Archive...
Natural sounds are any sounds produced by non-human organisms as well as those generated by natural, non-biological sources within their normal soundscapes...
| BritishLibrary - Sounds". sounds.bl.uk. Retrieved 14 July 2022. "Appledore, Kent - Survey of English Dialects - Accents and dialects | British Library...
Peter Kennedy Collection - World and traditional music | BritishLibrary - Sounds". sounds.bl.uk. Retrieved 14 March 2021. "Billy To Bob - Reg Hall English...
British Library - Sounds". sounds.bl.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-05. "Peter Kennedy Collection - World and traditional music | BritishLibrary - Sounds". sounds.bl...
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