Hear Scotland’s heritage online.
- Browse our growing list of online archive audio sources here
- Have a listen into some podcasts weaving heritage clips and contemporary comment
- Look at some animations that combine archive audio with illustration
- Check out our films – you’ll find drama inspired by archive recordings and some behind-the-scenes footage
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If you’ve only got a couple of minutes, listen in to Scotland’s past via our 2-minute Sounds like Scotland animated mixtape. It features clips from 12 audio collections held across the country from Lewis to Aberdeen and from Inverness to the Borders. The archive recordings span from 1909 to 2017 and were made on a host of weird and wonderful formats – wax cylinders, wire, shellac discs, open reel tape, cassettes and digital media. Enjoy birdsong, music, spoken memories and more…
With warm thanks to the collections who shared these recordings for the Sounds like Scotland animation:
- Cradle Song Medley | James Scott Skinner, 1909, National Library of Scotland
- Alistair Campbell & Betty Nichol, 1983, Scottish Borders Archives [Listen online here]
- Birds on Canna, 1951, National Trust for Scotland [Listen online here]
- Mairead nan Cuiread (Tha Mulad, Tha Mulad) | Kate Nicolson (and chorus), 1963, School of Scottish Studies Archives at the University of Edinburgh [Listen online here]
- Bobby & Gordon Hogg, 2007, Am Baile [Listen online here]
- Pathfoot Sounds by Suzy Angus & Janieann McCracken, 2017, University of Stirling [Listen online here]
- John MacDonald, 1980s, Inverness Museum & Art Gallery & Am Baile [Listen online here]
- Selkirk Pickin Night, 2011, Scottish Music Centre
- Jenifer Harley, 2011, West Lothian Archives
- A Tattie, a Neep and an Ingin | Harry Gordon, 1929, National Library of Scotland
- Donald Morrison, 1970s, Comunn Eachdraidh Nis | The Ness Historical Society
- Stella Henriques, 1986, University of Aberdeen Special Collections [Listen online here]
- Louise Welsh, 2014, OurStory Scotland
- Karolinka | Polish-Scottish Song and Story Group, 2015, Elphinstone Institute at the University of Aberdeen
Sound design: Steve Urquhart
Animation: Iain Gardner, Animation Garden