Greatest Hits: Showcasing the Institute of Popular Music Archive
The Institute of Popular Music was founded in 1988. Its archive contains extensive, significant and wide-ranging collections covering the history of popular music, including over 80,000 vinyl records and thousands of reel-to-reels, as well as CDs, cassettes, newspapers and magazines.
To celebrate the arrival of the IPM Archive’s first dedicated curator in 2023, colleagues from across the Music department have helped to select items to showcase the archive. A digital exhibition will offer the chance to explore these items further.
The exhibition is set to launch in June 2024. For more information, please contact Louise Bruton, IPM Archivist and Curator.
In 1887, the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee established a research station on Puffin Island, off Anglesey, Wales. In 1892 the station moved to Port Erin Bay on the Isle of Man, where the University of Liverpool took over control of it in 1919. An extension in 1980 added a library, teaching laboratory, and diving facility.
The station played a huge role in the lives of both students and locals until its closure in 2006. Most of its records and equipment were transferred to the University, including the Journal of the original station on Puffin Island, placement reports by Marine Biology students and photographs of them at work, and cameras and other instruments used on the station.
Some material from the collections appears in our exhibition, Student Life in the University Archive (items 4-6). We have identified the Port Erin collections as a potential pilot project to reunite paper archives with their companion heritage collections (instruments and other artefacts).