Today is the last day of the #UOSH project 🎉 Thanks to every team member working across cataloguing, engineering, curatorial, copyright and licensing, learning, technology, and development. We also want to thank our 10 partner hubs and 119 content contributors!

Remember you can access over 100,000 sound recordings on our Sounds website. From the relaxing sounds of nature, to exploring unique world and traditional music collections or visiting the past with oral histories, put your headphones on and listen at

A big thanks is also due to you - for following and engaging with @BLSoundHeritage over the years. Please keep up with all things sound related at the Library @soundarchive, where our dedication to sound conservation and the project's legacy will live on.

Janet Basilio, a granny referee talking about her experience of refereeing women’s matches and the changes to the game in 1973. Taken from BBC Radio Brighton collection digitised @TheKeepArchives for Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project... 1/2

And this is the sound archival best practice, as we have it just now: the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects https://t.co/uC1GxarzVZ (3/3)

This piece on caring for your collections at home was written as a sort of general introduction: https://t.co/2fBsiCab2x These are some guides written by the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage Team: https://t.co/IAyERAFZCK (2/3)

As we look to the end of Save Our Sounds and Unlocking Our Sound Heritage, we appreciate that often we have fielded technical questions here. We can't promise to be able to do that going forward, but here are some resources you might find useful: (1/3)

'All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players...' — #AsYouLikeIt Listen to John Gielgud perform Shakespeare's iconic Seven Ages of Man speech this #WorldTheatreDay 🎭

As if to be a very pertinent example of the reasons we've been doing this project, one of the records our engineers are working on this week is on the absolute cusp of cracking. To be fair, it is around 80 years old, but this is why we are trying to rescue the content.

As this is our last week regularly on Twitter with this account (remember to follow us at @soundarchive ) we thought we might put together a small collage of some of our #TapeboxTuesday over the last five years.

This account will close on Friday, but right now we are still working on increasing access to recordings at your fingertips – You can now access over 100,000 sounds at https://t.co/nHO0TJaK5n This week, help us to celebrate and thank all those who helped us preserve them. (3/3)

This major milestone also marks the beginning of the end of the project this week. But it's not a goodbye as our legacy lives on @soundarchive, follow us there! We’ll keep sharing rare recordings and raise awareness of ongoing work across the UK to save our sound heritage. (2/3)

We have a big announcement to share with you all this week 📣 Over the last five years #UOSH has preserved 368,620 sound recordings @britishlibrary and at 10 hub partners across the UK with the help of @HeritageFundUK, a huge effort worth celebrating! (1/3)

Maybe @VoicesofEnglish could help out here?

It's time again for our Friday #ListeningDesk quiz, can you figure out where this one is located? Our clues are a little bit more obscure this time time round... This #sound animation involves rat catching and a little dog that drinks tea from a hard hat! 🤔 Answers👇, please.

Deep below the British Library sits an archive of early sound recordings of Oceanic cultures. @wf_pritchard looks at how True Echoes is reconnecting the recordings with the communities they originated from. 📸 Will Hearle https://t.co/4YL1pTQT9c

British Library Sound Archive – Music from Nepal. Today (Wednesday) 22 March from 12 to 1 pm, live on https://t.co/rcGEGotYIs Selection and mix by Rahul Giri, Resonations artist-in-residence during 2022. Supported by the British Council. @NTSlive @soundarchive @dashrhl

This is a recording of the poem read by Helen Cruickshank herself, it was digitised by @natlibscot as part of our @HeritageFundUK #UOSH project. Happy #WorldPoetryDay! © Flora E.M. Hunter; Scotland's Record

Our first quiz question can be found below, get guessing before Monday! https://t.co/7AKTSN5otL

It's Friday, so how about a quick quiz before you log off for the day? Can you guess where this #ListeningDesk is located? Hint: It's not beside the seaside but it is a nautical venue... ⚓️