History is literally fading away in London right now.
Many of the items in The British Library’s vast collection of recorded sound are in danger of disappearing. Some just physically won’t last much longer. Others are stored in long-dead formats.
But those sounds can be salvaged — for instance, the library has managed to save one of the few recordings of Florence Nightingale, which is preserved from an 1890 wax cylinder.
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