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Richard Wheelband, the audio preservation engineer for the Sounds for the Future project, shows how to edit 1/4" magnetic tape. This video was created by University of Leicester Museums Studies students Yixin Wei, Lingyun Hao & Wenxuan Zhang. Sounds for the Future is a project run by the East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) at the University of Leicester. It is funded by the National Lott...

This is an excerpt of an interview from the Northampton County Council oral history collection collection, featuring Irene Muriel Tooley interviewed by Eileen Robbins in April 1988. Mrs Tooley discusses her memories of May Day celebrations in Brigstock, Northamptonshire. This collection came to EMOHA from Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Services. More than 300 tapes have been preserv...

This is the first of four training sessions about preserving audio recordings that were delivered online by the UOSH Midlands Hub in the summer of 2021. Free downloads about sound preservation are available from the British Library here - www.bl.uk/help/how-to-care-for-sound-recording-collections The Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) Midlands Hub was based in the library at the University of ...

This is the second of four training sessions about preserving audio recordings that were delivered online by the UOSH Midlands Hub in the summer of 2021. Free downloads about sound preservation are available from the British Library here - www.bl.uk/help/how-to-care-for-sound-recording-collections The Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) Midlands Hub was based in the library at the University of...

This is the third of four training sessions about preserving audio recordings that were delivered online by the UOSH Midlands Hub in the summer of 2021. Free downloads about sound preservation are available from the British Library here - www.bl.uk/help/how-to-care-for-sound-recording-collections The Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) Midlands Hub was based in the library at the University of ...

This is the last of four training sessions about preserving audio recordings that were delivered online by the UOSH Midlands Hub in the summer of 2021. Free downloads about sound preservation are available from the British Library here - www.bl.uk/help/how-to-care-for-sound-recording-collections The Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) Midlands Hub was based in the library at the University of L...

The Leicester Urban Observatory's Inaugural City Series Lecture was given by Sir Peter Soulsby on the subject of 'Leicester's Planning Story: Past & Future'. Follow Leicester's Urban Observatory at: leicesterurbanobservatory.wordpress.com/ Look at more videos about Leicester's planning history on the EMOHA playlist 'Planning Leicester'.

Paul Nolan, of the Lanchester Interactive Archive at Coventry University, talks about the use of the Donnelly and Thoms recordings for the Motor City Stories project. In 2019, the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) project Midlands Hub, based at the University of Leicester, digitised the recordings. You can read more about how we did this here - staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/10/2...

To celebrate UNESCO's World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, 27 October 2020, a short 'sound stories' video from the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage Midlands Hub at the University of Leicester. This tells the story of the speaker's enthusiasm for collecting old sound players and recorders. More information about early sound recorders can be found at the website for the The City of London Phonograph a...

To celebrate UNESCO's World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, 27 October 2020, a short 'sound stories' video from the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage Midlands Hub at the University of Leicester. This tells the story of a recording of the speaker's mother who recorded a piano piece for BBC Children's Hour in the 1950s. For help and advice you can find out more about the UOSH project and the Midlands Hu...

To celebrate UNESCO's World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, 27 October 2020, a short 'sound stories' video from the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage Midlands Hub at the University of Leicester. This tells the story of the UOSH Midlands Hub manager's discovery of a song recorded in Zaire by his uncle, Peter Hyde. For help and advice you can find out more about the UOSH project and the Midlands Hub her...

A short video from the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage Midlands Hub at the University of Leicester showing the cleaning of the tape heads on a Studer A810. You can find out more about the UOSH project and the Midlands Hub here - le.ac.uk/library/special-coll... The Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project is a partnership project led by the British Library, with funding from the National Lottery Herit...

A short video from the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage Midlands Hub at the University of Leicester showing azimuth adjustment on a Studer A807. You can find out more about the UOSH project and the Midlands Hub here - le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/unlocking-our-sound-heritage The Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project is a partnership project led by the British Library, with funding from the N...

This video shows an exhibition about sound recording in Leicestershire that was in Special Collection, in the David Wilson Library, at the University of Leicester. The exhibition ran from the end of 2019 into 2020 and was created by the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) Midlands Hub team, who are based in Special Collections. Our apologies but the QR code link no longer works. You can find ou...

Leicester City 1949 FA Cup Campaign

Leicester's Indoor Market

Revisiting the Studies in Conservation, 1968: Bath, Chester, Chichester & York. CUH Lecture 2019

Investigating Ilott Wharf's Hidden Heritage

'The legacies of Ireland's eighteenth century urban renaissance', the CUH Lecture 2018

'Chongqing in darkness and light', the CUH Lecture 2017

Leicester’s Changing Landscape: the city and modern architecture since 1945

Planning Leicester - 'Leicester: a totally uninteresting Midlands City...'

Planning Leicester - 'Current town planning in Leicester'.

Planning Leicester - 'Planning in Leicester after Smigielski: the 1970s and 80s'.

Planning Leicester - '...Konrad Smigielski and the planning of post-war Leicester'

Planning Leicester - 'The Historic Environment & opposition to post-war planning schemes...'

Planning Leicester - 'The importance of the archaeology and standing buildings of Leicester'

Planning Leicester - 'Traffic, tradition and optimism in 1960s modernist planning'.

Planning Leicester - 'A lucky town: a view of post-war Leicester'