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Contraceptives, buttons and much more
Written by – Ingeborg Verheul, Collection Manager – Library and Archive Atria Since a few years and to a growing extend, objects form an additional source for historical research. Digitisation makes...
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Field recording Irish traditional music
Today we have a guest post by Maeve Gebruers, Printed Materials Officer at Irish Traditional Music Archive. It was first published on Europeana Sounds blog on August 12, 2015. As well as collecting the...
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Recording and playing machines through time: a virtual exhibition
Today another guest post by Emilie Vaisman from National Library of France about the latest virtual exhibition created in cooperation with Europeana. The text first appeared on Europeana Sounds blog...
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How does a Greek traditional lullaby sound like?
This is a guest post by Marianna Anastasiou, The Music Library of Greece of the Friends of Music Society, CC BY-NC. This post appeared first on September 21, 2015 on Europeana Sounds blog. How does a...
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Sounds to celebrate Capricorn!
This is a guest post by Tom Miles from The British Library. This post appeared first on January 7, 2016 on Europeana Sounds blog. A happy new year to all of you. At Europeana Sounds we’ve just recently...
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Tea Reading
Guest post by Joseph Garvin from The European Library. Tea is what keeps many of us going on these cold chilly winter days, when it’s raining, windy, or snowing. Have you ever wanted to know more about...
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The cat that ate the candle and the ewe with the crooked horn
This is a guest post by Rónán Galvin and Maeve Gebruers, Irish Traditional Music Archive. This post, titled “‘Miss Mousie’s Ball’ and ‘The ewe with the crooked horn’: animal-related songs and tunes...
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Travelling through Mongolia with two gramophones
Enjoy a guest post by Sabine Schostag, Statsbiblioteket, edited by Imogen Greenhalgh. A version of this post appeared first on February 4, 2016 on Europeana Sounds blog. This is a story about Danish...
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The Greatest Traveller in History? The Life and Places of Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta, or ‘Abu Abd al-Lah Muhammad ibn Abd al-Lah l-Lawati t-Tangi ibn Batutah’ to give him his full name, is a strong contestant for the greatest traveller in history. Not only did he travel a...
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“If father’s gone, keep smiling”– considering the children of the First World...
Guest post by Clare Gibson, of The Army Children Archive (TACA) What Europe’s children went through during the First World War is often overlooked by historians. Understandably, perhaps, if they are...
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