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British Library secures £9.5m lottery funding to 'save the nation's sounds'

Gramophone
Thursday, May 21, 2015

The funding will allow the British Library to digitise and publish online up to 500,000 recordings, including unique musical performances

Damaged gelatine disc being examined in the British Library sound archive. Photo by Clare Kendall
Damaged gelatine disc being examined in the British Library sound archive. Photo by Clare Kendall

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