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New audio recordings: ICA talks & debates

Previously unpublished recordings of ICA talks from the 1980s went online last week on the Britsh Library’s Archival Sound Recordings website.

“Featuring talks and debates with top cultural, artistic and political figures of the day, this latest addition the archive offers a chance to explore in detail cultural directions in the UK from 1981 to 1994.

The talks comprise over 880 recordings, over 1000 hours of audio, on subjects including art, literature, performance, fashion, film, music, philosophy, psychology, biology, feminism, AIDS and politics”

These recordings are publicly accessible and as the LSE Library also subscribes to this collection many are available to download for academic use.

Example recording

From 1987, Politics of Exile: Asia, Caribbean, East Europe A conference on the political situation in Asia, the Caribbeans and Eastern Europe, speakers include Tariq Ali.

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New Sound Archive from British Library

Today I went to the launch of the British Library Sound Archival Recording Service which is an initiative funded by JISC to make selected extracts of the BL Sound Archive available for teaching and research to the HE and FE community. Further information about the service is available at: http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/archsoundrec.htmlThe collection is free, however we do need to take out a licence. Although at the moment the collection is not core to LSE, it is well worth would promoting to staff as soon as we have the licence. We should include details of the service in all the digital media sessions we do for academic staff. Once we get our subscription sorted I will send a follow up message about how you access it.