IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Emile Berliner, a German immigrant ...

When did you first suspect that record shops might be sinking in the uncharted waters of digital downloads, online sales and the stack ‘em high-flog ‘em cheap attitude of supermarkets who, actually, ...

Years before radios and televisions were the source of entertainment in most living rooms across the country, families gathered around non-electric, crank-wound gramophones and phonographs to enjoy ...

What makes a milestone recording? It's not just down to artistic excellence –though that too – but also to do with how, through performance or technology, it somehow changed the nature of recording, ...