Transforming a Colonial Library in Nairobi
Two intrepid Nairobi women decide to transform what used to be a whites-only library until 1958 into a vibrant cultural hub. Along the way, they must navigate local politics, raise…
Selling you a furniture fantasy
This video is all about selling furniture. How it is done today at IKEA and how Montgomery Ward did it 100 years ago.
The People’s Recorder: A Giant Listening Project
During the height of the Great Depression, the U.S government hired out-of-work writers and laid-off reporters and sent them out to record the stories of all kinds of Americans. Called…
Writers’ History Lessons: The People’s Recorder podcast
The first episode of the People’s Recorder podcast begins with host Chris Haley declaring: “In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, when many said America was at her lowest point, something…
The 120 Minutes Archive
Welcome to The 120 Minutes Archive, the independent, critically acclaimed, definitive library of music video nostalgia. Since 2003, we’ve been traveling through time to rediscover and share the legacy of…
History Extra podcast: The librarian who stole KGB secrets
When an elderly man with a battered suitcase walked into the British embassy in Vilnius in 1992, few could have guessed what he was about to hand over. Gordon Corera…
Weeding is Fundamental Revisited
Libraries get rid of books all the time. There are so many new books coming in every day and only a finite amount of library space. The practice of freeing…
escaping the memory hole with the internet archive
fighting linkrot
Fuck You Press Archive
It was a good day when I finally got my hands on Fuck You Vol. 5/No. 7. Quite possibly the coolest, hippest magazine of the mimeo revolution (Fuck You epitomized…