Gypsy and Traveller Voices in Archives

Thursday, 01 June 2023 01:26

The English Folk Dance and Song Society’s Vaughan Williams Memorial Library’s archives contain many songs sung by Gypsies and Travellers. A new project will make these songs more accessible to the communities from which they came.

Library Conference call for papers

Thursday, 18 May 2023 01:26

Folk dance: grappling with tradition

Broadside Day 2023

Tuesday, 06 December 2022 10:21

Conference on Street Literature and Cheap Print

Library Lectures 2023

Thursday, 01 December 2022 10:01

The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library will present a series of four lectures in Spring 2023.

We are pleased to return to in-person presentations at Cecil Sharp House, with live streaming for anyone who is not able to travel.

The 2023 lectures are:

‘The poet John Clare as violinist and collector of folk melodies’

Presented by Eugenia Russell, Wednesday 18 January

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‘Harmer Fecit: the Songs and Dances in Sylvan Harmer's Song Book (1818–1821)’

Presented by Sean Goddard, Wednesday 15 February

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‘How to sing in the street’

Presented by Oskar Cox Jensen, Wednesday 15 March

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‘Distant Cousins: Cornish Christmas Carols in South Australia’

Presented by Kate Neale, Wednesday 19 April

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Watch selected past Library Lectures on YouTube