Barbican Summer Exhibition: Project a Black Planet, June to September 2026

Miss Christabel Pankhurst – Speech on Suffrage for Women, 1909

V&A East Exhibition: The Music Is Black, April 2026 to Jan 2027

Music’s tech nightmare part 1: The quiet storm – the 1920s witnessed astonishing technological change, and music was being left behind

Music’s tech nightmare part 2: The legendary Louis Sterling

Music’s tech nightmare part 3: No spoils for this Victor

Why the UK messed up the ‘Jazz Age’

The roaring and soaring 1920s

I had that weird feeling when I came across this crowd shot whilst scanning Don McLean images for Universal (Music Group) I remembered going to this free concert at Hyde Park (though I didn’t remember that it was May 1975, or that I’d recently turned 17). I thought ‘wouldn’t it be funny if I could… Read more »

The Trust would like to thank Ricky Ford for sending in his memory of EMI. Ricky was an EMI recording artist and has shared a little about his time with the label. It was 1961 in Bristol a truly daring and controversial musical called A MAN DIES was produced, it was the first RocknRoll religious musical.… Read more »