Midlands Oral History and Sound Resources

In 2025, Dr Elizabeth Blood and Colin Hyde created an audit of audio archives in the Midlands. This updated the Midlands entries of a UK-wide audit compiled by the British Library in 2015 as a precursor to the Save Our Sounds project.

The audit, which you will soon be able to read on the University of Leicester's Figshare pages, has details of over 60 libraries, museums and archives in the Midlands that hold audio recordings. Inevitably, an audit like this will never be complete so we will update it at least annually to take into account new projects or changes to the listings.

The locations of most of the collection holders are represented on Google Maps. You will have to look at the audit for details of their collections.

If you have a collection that you think ought to be included in this audit but is not, please don't hesitate to contact us at emoha@le.ac.uk.