Blackpool Showtown Museum-summer fun for the whole family!

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

When Fred met Caruso!

Here at the EMI Archive Trust we love returning the spotlight to enormously consequential people in the history of EMI and the music industry who are not so well known any more but absolutely deserve to be so. This time, the very wonderful and amazing Mr Trevor Williams. As will become clear, it really is… Read more »

Malvern October 2024: Talk by Paul Alger – Vice President of Asset and Archive Management for Universal Music, for the City of London Phonograph & Gramophone Society (CLPGS) Annual AGM. This article was first featured in ‘For the Record’ No. 92 Winter Edition 2024, the journal of the CLPGS The article is shared with kind… Read more »

‘The EMI Home Guardian’ is a little known newspaper created for and by C-Coy. 17th Btn. (Home Guard) based on the EMI Factory site, Hayes, Middlesex throughout WWII. This extract, written 80 years ago, marks the D-Day Landings, 6th June 1944, one of the most remarkable Allied wartime operations. ‘The EMI Home Guardian’ Since my… Read more »

The launch of the most extensive and detailed catalogue ever of the Gramophone Company’s legacy of era-defining recordings from all around the world – ‘The Gramophone Company Discography’

Bhaskar Menon, the founding Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of EMI Music Worldwide and prominent music and film executive, died on March 4, 2021 at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 86. He is survived by Sumitra, his wife of 49 years, sons Siddhartha and Vishnu, and sister Vasantha Menon. A citizen of the… Read more »