The Michael Wright Collection is the centrepiece of the Archive Trust's holdings. Assembled by Michael Wright over four decades, it comprises 8,145 audio recordings of academic lectures, seminars, conferences and informal discussions in mathematics, theoretical physics, cosmology and the philosophy of science.
The recordings span the period 1973 to 2015, capturing many of the most significant scientific conversations of the late twentieth century. Speakers include Sir Roger Penrose, Stephen Hawking, Sir Michael Atiyah, Edward Witten, and hundreds of other researchers across the mathematical sciences.
The collection is held on cassette tape, minidisc, CD, DVD and other analogue and digital media. The Trust is engaged in a programme of expert digitisation, converting each recording to a 96kHz WAV master and producing MP3 access copies for public online access.