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CLPGS Lectures


Audio Recordings from the City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society


Lectures on the History of the Phonograph and Gramophone: Music, Technology and Industry


All Content provided has been organised by CLPGS

Delivered at London, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, Ethical Society


Visit the CLPGS website for more information:


(MP3 320kbs Googledrive Access)

Uploads to Ambientscape beginning from October 2022




John Kobylecky - Pop Music Hits in Britain During the 2nd World War

20-05-25 Listen here



Ben Jackson/Robert Hazle - Noel Howard: The Master's Voice

15-04-25 Listen here



Peter Martland - The Major German Recording Industry Pioneer

18-03-25 Listen here



Ferenc Szabo - Eternola Edison Bell Ltd in Hungary

18-02-25 Listen here



Barbara Gentili - Singing at the Time of Verismo

21-01-25 Listen here



Catherine Tackley - The Music of the British Dance Bands

View Powerpoint presentation

Stream the music

19-11-24 Listen here



Steve Paget - Different Sized 78rpm and Other Discs

15-10-24 Listen here



Alan Dein - Petticoat Lane Foxtrot (Extract Part 1)

View Powerpoint presentation

Stream his selected records

17-09-24 Listen here



William Sheffield - Personifying the Talking Machine

View PowerpointPoint presentation

20-08-24 Listen here



Howard Hope - Alternative Sound Recording Technologies

20-08-24 Listen here



Robert Girling - Durium Flexible Records

16-07-24 Listen here



Elaine Hedger - Collecting and Beyond

16-07-24 Listen here



Tim Wood-Woolley - A Presention on the Mighty Radio

18-06-24 Listen here



Theo Morgan - Britain's First Number Ones

View Powerpoint presentation

21-05-24 Listen here



Tony Clayden - The Golden Age of Library Music

16-04-24 Listen here



Aurea Dominguez - The Role of Women in the Phonograph

and Gramophone Industries

19-03-24 Listen here



Inya Stanovic - New Takes on Old Machines

20-02-24 Listen here



Peter Martland - 1902 G&T Recording Expedition to Italy

21-11-23 Listen here



Nick Dellow - Electric Cylinder & Sound Restoration

17-10-23 Listen here



Mike Purton - Both Sides of the Microphone

Mike Purton Recording

19-09-23 Listen here



Keith Hubbard - Jamaica's First Recording Studio

15-08-23 Listen here



Christopher Proudfoot - A Look at the Gramophone

15-08-23 Listen here



William Sheffield - Song Slides: The Phonograph

15-08-23 Listen here



Theo Morgan - The Last Survivors of Shellac

View PowerPoint presentation

18-07-23 Listen here



John Dale - The National Jazz Archive

National Jazz Archive

20-06-23 Listen here



Keith Harrison - Recorded Sound: the First Two

First Sounds.Org

16-05-23 Listen here



Tim Wood-Woolley - One Hit Wonders on Blue Amberol

16-05-23 Listen here



Garth Cartwright - A Century of UK Record Shops

British Record Shop Archive

18-04-23 Listen here



Tom Stephenson - The Signs of Music

Certain tracks have been edited out

21-03-23 Listen here



Simon Heighes - Great British Choral Tradition on Record

View PowerPoint presentation

21-03-23 Listen here



Theo Morgan - Bob and Alf Pearson: The Musical Duo

View PowerPoint presentation

21-02-23 Listen here



Howard Hope - Advertising Records

Stream his selected records

17-01-23 Listen here



Theo Morgan - First UK Singles Chart 70th Anniversary

View PowerPoint presentation

15-11-22 Listen here



Steve Paget - American Musicians in Great Britain

18-10-22 Listen here



Further Information:


* CLPGS Website



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