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Library Lectures 2020

: Monday, 11 November 2019 16:01

The new series of Library Lectures kicks off in January, welcoming four fantastic speakers who will guide you through fascinating topics around folk song, dance and wider culture.

Broadside Day 2020 call for papers

: Wednesday, 24 July 2019 16:46

Cecil Sharp House, 22 February 2020

Deadline for applications: 21 October 2019

Vacancy: Archivist

: Thursday, 02 May 2019 16:39

The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) is offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced archives and records management professional to join the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library as Archivist & Records Manager.

Could you help to preserve folk's history?

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: Tuesday, 05 February 2019 11:54

Ever since Cecil Sharp House opened in 1932, our Vaughan Williams Memorial Library has looked after our folk treasures.

As well as the largest number of folk manuscripts in England, the collection contains books, pamphlets, periodicals, press cuttings, broadsides, paintings, photographs, slides, artefacts, vinyl records, reel-to-reel tapes, phonograph cylinders, videos, cine-films and more.

From Cecil Sharp’s own field notebooks to William Kimber’s morris bells, not to mention books dating back to the 17th century, it is an essential resource for anyone interested in folk.

But collections as unique as this need constant attention, and that’s why we need your help.

Our incredibly rare books now require special care, such as bound volumes of 19th-century street literature, printed on incredibly fragile paper which is slowly disintegrating. Our 18th-century Playford volumes need restoration, at an average cost of £270 for each volume. And we need to raise £8,000 to digitise and preserve our collections of reel-to-reel tapes and cinefilm.

Could you help to ensure that these priceless treasures remain accessible to future generations? Please, do support the VWML today.

Call for papers—Traditional Folk Song: Past, Present & Future

: Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:53

Saturday 10 to Sunday 11 November 2018

Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 7AY

Folk song, the everyday music of the common people as passed from generation to generation, has been highly debated ever since the first attempts by early collectors to define it. It has been performed, collected, researched, and unpicked, and the defining qualities which make it unique continue to stimulate current debate and approaches to collecting.

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Library Lectures 2020

Broadside Day 2020 call for papers

Deadline for applications: 21 October 2019

Vacancy: Archivist

Support us

Ever since Cecil Sharp House opened in 1932, our Vaughan Williams Memorial Library has looked after our folk treasures.

Call for papers—Traditional Folk Song: Past, Present & Future

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Cecil Sharp's English Folk Song: Some Conclusions