by the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage team

The Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) team started at Bristol Archives in October 2018. They’ve weathered fun technical issues and a pandemic, but they look back now, in their final week, on what they’ve…

by Katie Scaife, project manager, Unlocking Our Sound Heritage, Bristol Archives

Unlocking Our Sound Heritage started off with many laudable aims, but changing the law of the land came as a surprise!

One of our main aims for Unlocking Our Sound …

by Katie Scaife, project manager, Unlocking Our Sound Heritage, Bristol Archives

Get out the bubbly! Today – 27 October – is the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.

This year’s theme is Window on the World, and couldn’t be more apt. Thr…

by Cara Powell, Unlocking Our Sound Heritage volunteer

Cara Powell is completing her BA in History at the University of the West of England. The Unlocking Our Sound Heritage team were lucky enough to have her as a volunteer in 2019-20. Cara worked on a…

by David, Sam and Philippa, from the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project

The first collection held by Bristol Archives that Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) digitised was from Arnolfini, Bristol’s contemporary arts centre.

40 years of art…

On Friday 8 May, we mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day – the end of the Second World War in Europe.

On Tuesday 8 May 1945, celebrations took place across the country and Bristol was no exception. Two different audio-visual archives from Bristol …

by Samuel Bates, Audio Digitisation Engineer

Sometimes, the problem you expect is not the problem you end up with.

On the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project, we are preserving thousands of at-risk audio items. We have cassettes and open-re…