Speaking archives! Sound recordings from our holdings.
Catalogue links
Click on the links below to find catalogue descriptions of various types of sound recording in our holdings. There are links to edited highlights further down the page.
Interviews and reminiscences
Speeches and discussions
Training
Music and drama
Diaries
Broadcasts
Ceremonies
All digitised recordings (results can be filtered by categories above)
Sectors: digitised interview recordings listed according to employment sector.
Women workers: digitised interview recordings of women workers, managers and others listed according to employment sector.
Accents: digitised interview recordings listed according to regional and other accents.
Most of the recordings are on vulnerable formats such as cassette tapes.
In 2011 we began the long process of digitising them in order to preserve them and make them more accessible.
You can listen to the digitised recordings direct from the catalogue.
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A veteran Trotskyist remembers: interviews with Harry WicksA stalwart of the left recalls his Battersea childhood, the General Strike, his experiences in the Soviet Union and with Trotsky in Copenhagen. 
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No mean fighter: the Harry McShane interviews'The last of the Red Clydesiders' looks back on sixty years of activism in Glasgow and beyond. 
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The Minister speaks: the diaries of Richard CrossmanTales of strife and exhilaration in government, musings on the universe and a meeting with influential Israelis, 1964-1970. 
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Social workers speak outTwenty-six interviews with the pioneers of a profession. 
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Five men, six days: Pentonville voicesMemories of when workers rose up in support of five imprisoned London dockers (includes swearing). 
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Working for health: the carers' viewHealth workers reflect on their role through sixty years. 
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Women at workInsights into female employment. 
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Making motorsStories from the vehicle industry. 
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Thirty years of ChildLineReflections by Dame Esther Rantzen and others on the work of the children's helpline. 
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The Industrial Society presents. . .Management training from the 1960s. 
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The Pepys of PlaistowSelected readings from the diaries of young Londoner Tom Flinn, cyclist, wireless fan, cultural critic and more besides, 1932-1935. 
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