King's Sound Archive
The King's Sound Archive includes some 150,000 78rpm records, mostly UK issues, covering classical and popular releases from the c1900 to c1960.
Donations of discs not held - especially acoustic era and non-UK material - are warmly welcomed.
Background, current use, services
A list of the original catalogue numbers of everything we hold is available as two PDFs - one for 10 inch 78s and one for 12 inch 78s. If you know what you are looking for, but do not know the catalogue number, use the CHARM discography search. (The catalogue number will typically be listed under 'Note', 'Issue_78_45', or 'CatNum'.) Failing that, email us and we'll see if we can find it for you. Discs may be heard, studied and copied (within the contraints of copyright legislation) by arrangement.
To find sound files of almost 5,000 of our 78s use the
CHARM sound file search.
Many other resources for the study of recorded performances are provided by the CHARM website.
To learn more about the Archive follow the links to Services and History of the Archive.