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

The Sound of the Hound today announced the launch of a new historical podcast series sharing the adventures, stories and lives of the entrepreneurs, artists and eccentrics who invented the music industry and brought recorded music to the masses at the tail end of the nineteenth century. The series is presented by music industry veteran… Read more »

In early 1940, Alan Blumlein and his team at the EMI Central Research Labs began work on the technology behind the Capacitance Altimeter. This device works by measuring the differences in charge between a low-lying aircraft and the charge at Earth’s surface, therefore enabling aircraft and other vehicles to fly at night and in cloudy… 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 »

Huge congratulations to all of this year’s Grammy winners! The original article, posted in June 2014, was amended in May 2026. Did you know that the Grammy Award was originally called a Gramophone Award? It is given by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to recognise significant achievements in the music industry. The… Read more »

Alan Blumlein was a senior sound engineer at EMI’s Central Research Laboratories (CRL) on the Hayes factory site. He joined the company when Columbia and The Gramophone Company merged in 1931. Over his lifetime he was a prolific inventor, developing huge technological advances within the sound engineering field. After a night at the cinema with… Read more »

The Trust would like to thank Margaret Carvalho, who has kindly agreed to contribute a memory to our Memories of EMI Campaign (#memoriesofEMI.) She sent in a picture of herself aged 16 and told us about her trip to see the recordings of a Radio Luxembourg show. “When I was 16, I remember travelling to… Read more »