UCL phonetics recordings

Long description:

Recordings in this collection are available to Higher and Further Education institutions only.

Listen to unpublished post-war recordings, covering poetry, dramatic performances, nursery rhymes, folk tales and teaching materials for English.

UCL Phonetics Recordings is a collection of over 500 gramophone discs, accumulated by the UCL Phonetics Department over a century of teaching and research. The discs, deposited at the British Library in 2008, date predominantly from the inter-war period of the twentieth century. The collection includes both commercial and unpublished recordings, covering lectures, performances, and extensive teaching materials for English and many other languages. Professor Daniel Jones, founder of the UCL department, is strongly represented, as are other eminent colleagues, including Arthur Lloyd James, Secretary of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English.

The selection available here currently consists of digitised copies of a set of discs recorded by Margaret Espinasse in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

The British Library acknowledges the support of the UCL Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences.

All recordings on this site are governed by licence agreements.