A Nazi radio archive with more than 4,000 discs that have never been played, a collection of Beijing street sounds from the 90s and the voice of Florence Nightingale are among the British Library's ...

The British Library has assembled a unique digital collection that allows researchers and students to examine the evolution of spoken English. The collection includes 288 pairs of digital recordings ...

The British Library today announced its first partnership with Google, under which Google will digitize 250,000 items from the library's vast collection of work produced between 1700-1870. The Library ...

Last year, the British Library began the "Save our Sounds" project, with the aim of accelerating the digitisation of millions upon millions of lost audio recordings held in its vast archive. The ...

Are the UK’s antiterrorism laws impinging on academic freedom? Such is the fear based on the British Library‘s decision not to accept the world’s largest collection of Taliban documents. The Taliban ...