Demo tapes

Demo tapes is a new project which brings together newly-digitised sound archives and music groups around the north west region to create new works around the theme of protest.

Protest Music and Political Life – part 2

Last week I blogged about women's experiences of becoming politically active in the 1930s. Staying with the Manchester Studies collection ...
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Protest Music and Political Life – part 1

As well as digitising and cataloguing audio collections from across the North West our hub aims to increase access to ...
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Introducing Demo Tapes

Every Friday during school terms last year the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage sound studio was full of the noise of ...
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Suffragettes – animation for International Women’s Day

In the run up to International Women's Day I gave a number of sound clips to one of the Archives+ Community ...
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LGBTQ+ MIXTAPE (Part I)

This LGBT History Month, ‘Unlocking Our Sound Heritage’ presented a room of curated archive audio and immersive projections. Manchester’s LGBTQ+ ...
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The Housewives of Wythenshawe

The Housewives of Wythenshawe: A History of Political Involvement and the Power of Local Campaigns m65238: Benchill School, Wythenshawe, Manchester ...
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