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——, Modern Street Ballads (London: Chatto & Windus, 1888).
——, Real Sailor-Songs (London: Leadenhall Press, 1891).
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——, ‘The Wit Combat Episode in The Unquiet Grave’, Lore & Language, 12 (1994), 11–30.
——, The English Traditional Ballad: Theory, Method and Practice (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002).
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——, English Traditional Songs and Carols (London: Boosey, 1908).
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——, Folk Songs from Country Magazine (London: Paxton, 1952).
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——, Songs and Southern Breezes (London: Heinemann, 1973).
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——, The Iron Man: English Occupational Songs (London: Galliard, 1974).
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——, Cornish Dialect and Folk Songs (London: Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, 1932).
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——, ‘Babylonian Performances: The Rise and Suppression of Popular Church Music, 1660–1870’, in Popular Culture and Class Conflict, 1590–1914, ed. Eileen and Stephen Yeo (Brighton: Harvester, 1981).
——, ‘Not Appreciated in Worthing? Class Expression and Popular Song Texts in Mid-19th Century Britain’, Popular Music, 4 (1984), 5–24.
——, ‘Singing and Popular Funeral Practices in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’, Folk Music Journal, 5:4 (1988), 412–47.
——, ‘Grand Conversation: Napoleon and British Popular Balladry’, RSA Journal, 137 (1989), 665–73.
——, Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song 1600–1900 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008).
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——, Old Christmas Carols of the Southern Counties (London: Curwen, 1910).
——, Songs of the Open Road (London: Joseph Williams, 1911).
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——, ‘Fakesong in an Imagined Village? A Critique of the Harker-Boyes Thesis’, Canadian Folk Music, 43:3 (Fall 2009), 18–26.
——, The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody 1878–1903 (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010).
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——, Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England (London: John Russell Smith, 1849; and later editions).
Hamer, Fred, Garners Gay: English Folk Songs (London: EFDS Publications, 1967).
——, Green Groves: More English Folk Songs (London: EFDS Publications, 1973).
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——, Songs and Verse of the North-East Pitmen c.1780–1844 (Gateshead: Surtees Society, 1999), vol. 204.
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Hugill, Stan, Shanties from the Seven Seas (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961).
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Joyce, P. W., Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (London: Longmans, Green, 1909).
Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (JEFDSS) (1932–64).
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Karpeles, Maud, Cecil Sharp: His Life and Work (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967).
——, Cecil Sharp’s Collection of English Folk Songs (London: Oxford University Press, 1974).
Kennedy, Peter, Folksongs of Britain and Ireland (London: Cassell, 1975).
Kidson, Frank, Traditional Tunes: A Collection of Ballad Airs (Oxford: Chas. Taphouse, 1891).
——, A Garland of English Folk-Songs (London: Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, 1926).
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——, Native American Balladry: A Descriptive Study and a Bibliographic Syllabus, revised edn (Philadelphia: American Folklore Society, 1964).
Leach, MacEdward, and Tristram P. Coffin, The Critics and the Ballad (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1961).
Leather, Ella M., The Folk-Lore of Herefordshire (Hereford: Jakeman & Carver, 1912).
Leather, Ella M., and Ralph Vaughan Williams, Twelve Traditional Carols from Herefordshire (London: Stainer & Bell, 1920).
Lloyd, A. L., Folk Song in England (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1967).
——, Come All Ye Bold Miners: Ballads and Songs of the Coalfields, 2nd edn (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1978).
Lloyd, Christopher, English Corsairs on the Barbary Coast (London: Collins, 1981).
Long, W. H., The Dialect of the Isle of Wight (London: Reeves & Turner, 1886).
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Lyle, Thomas, Ancient Ballads and Songs, Chiefly from Tradition, Manuscripts, and Scarce Works (London: L. Relfe, 1827).
MacColl, Ewan, and Peggy Seeger, The Singing Island (London: Mills Music, 1960).
——, Travellers’ Songs from England and Scotland (London: Routledge, 1977).
Maidment, James, A North Countrie Garland (Edinburgh, The Author, 1824).
Mason, M. H., Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs (1878; 2nd edn, London: Mezzler, 1908).
Mayhew, Henry, London Labour and the London Poor 4 vols. (London: Griffin, Bohn, 1861).
Merrick, W. P., Folk Songs from Sussex (London: Novello, 1912).
Moeran, E. J., Six Folk Songs from Suffolk (London: Augener, 1924).
——, Six Suffolk Folk-Songs (London: Curwen, 1932).
Moore, Thomas, A Selection of Irish Melodies, 10 vols. (Dublin: Power’s Music and Instrument Warehouse, 1808–34; and countless later editions, usually entitled Moore’s Irish Melodies).
Morrish, John, The Folk Handbook: Working with Songs from the English Tradition (New York: Backbeat, 2007).
Newell, William Wells, Games and Songs of American Children, 2nd edn (New York: Harper, 1903).
Northall, G. F., English Folk-Ryhmes (London: Kegan Paul, 1892).
O’Lochlainn, Colm, Irish Street Ballads (Dublin: Three Candles, 1939).
Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951). ——, The Singing Game (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).
O’Shaughnessy, Patrick, Seven Lincolnshire Folk Songs (London: Oxford University Press, 1966).
——, 21 Lincolnshire Folk Songs (London: Oxford University Press, 1968).
——, More Folk Songs from Lincolnshire (London: Oxford University Press, 1971).
——, Yellowbelly Ballads, 2 parts (Lincoln: Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts, 1975).
——, Late Leaves from Lincolnshire (Lincoln: Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts, 1980).
Palmer, Roy, Songs of the Midlands (East Ardsley: EP, 1972)
——, A Touch on the Times: Songs of Social Change, 1770–1914 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974).
——, The Rambling Soldier: Life in the Lower Ranks, 1750–1900 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977).
——, Everyman’s Book of English Country Songs (London: Dent, 1979).
——, Everyman’s Book of British Ballads (London: Dent, 1980).
——, Folk Songs Collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams (London: Dent, 1983).
——, The Oxford Book of Sea Songs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
——, The Sound of History: Songs and Social Comment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988).
——, What a Lovely War: British Soldiers’ Songs from the Boer War to the Present Day (London: Michael Joseph, 1990).
——, Boxing the Compass: Sea Songs and Shanties (Todmorden: Herron, 2001); new edn of The Oxford Book of Sea Songs.
——, Working Songs: Industrial Ballads and Poems from Britain and Ireland 1780s–1980s (Todmorden: Herron, 2010).
Paton, Charlotte, The King of the Norfolk Poachers: His Life and Times (Ipswich: Old Pond, 2009).
Patten, Bob and Jacqueline, Somerset Scrapbook (Ina Books, 1987).
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——, ‘The Farmworker and The Farmer’s Boy’, Lore and Language, 3:9 (1983), 44–64.
——, Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008).
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——, Folk Songs from the North (Newcastle: Frank Graham, 1970).
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Purslow, Frank, Marrow Bones: English Folk Songs from the Hammond and Gardiner Manuscripts (London: EFDS Publications, 1965; revised edn edited by Malcolm Douglas and Steve Gardham, London: English Folk Dance and Song Society, 2007).
——, The Wanton Seed: More English Folk Songs from the Hammond and Gardiner Manuscripts (London: EFDS Publications, 1968).
——, The Constant Lovers: More English Folk Songs from the Hammond and Gardiner Manuscripts (London: EFDS Publications, 1972).
——, The Foggy Dew: More English Folk Songs from the Hammond and Gardiner Manuscripts (London: EFDS Publications, 1974).
Ramsay, Allan, The Tea-Table Miscellany: A Collection of Scots Songs, 4 vols. (Edinburgh, The Author, 1723–37).
Ravenscroft, Thomas, Pammelia: Music’s Miscellanie, or Mixed Varietie of Pleasant Roundelayes and Delightfull Catches … (London, 1609; reprinted, American Folklore Society, 1961).
——, Deuteromelia, or the Second Part Musick’s Melodie or Melodious Musicke of Pleasant Roundelaies … (London, 1609; reprinted, American Folklore Society, 1961).
——, Melismata: Musical Phantasies Fitting the Court, Citie, and Countrey Humours (London, 1611; reprinted, American Folklore Society, 1961).
Reeves, James, Idiom of the People: English Traditional Verse from the MSS of Cecil Sharp (London: Heinemann, 1958).
——, The Everlasting Circle: English Traditional Verse (London: Heinemann, 1960).
Renwick, Roger DeV., English Folk Poetry: Structure and Meaning (London: Batsford, 1980).
——, Recentering Anglo/American Folksong: Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2001).
Reynardson, H. F. Birch, Sussex Songs: Popular Songs of Sussex (London: Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co. [1889]).
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Richards, Sam, and Stubbs, Tish, The English Folksinger (London: Collins, 1979).
Rogers, Nicholas, The Press Gang: Naval Impressment and Its Opponents in Georgian Britain (London: Continuum, 2007).
Rollins, Hyder E., A Pepysian Garland: Black-Letter Broadside Ballads of the Years 1595–1639 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1922).
Roud, Steve, and Paul Smith, Catalogue of Songs and Song Books Printed and Published by James Catnach, 1832 (West Stockwith: January Books, 1985).
Roud, Steve, Eddie Upton and Malcolm Taylor, Still Growing: English Traditional Songs and Singers from the Cecil Sharp Collection (London: English Folk Dance and Song Society, 2003).
Russell, Ian, Singer, Song and Scholar (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1986).
——, ‘Stability and Change in a Sheffield Singing Tradition’, Folk Music Journal, 5:5 (1987), 317–58.
Sainsbury, A. B., The Royal Navy Day by Day, 2nd edn (Shepperton: Ian Allen, 1992).
Sandys, William, Christmas Carols: Ancient and Modern (London: Richard Beckley, 1833).
Seeger, Charles, ‘Prescriptive and Descriptive Music-Writing’, Musical Quarterly, 44 (1958), 184–95.
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Senelick, Lawrence, Tavern Singing in Early Victorian London (London: Society for Theatre Research, 1997).
Sharp, Cecil J., Folk Songs from Somerset, 5 vols. (London: Simpkin Marshall, 1904–9).
——, English Folk-Song: Some Conclusions (London: Simpkin, 1907).
——, English Folk Carols (London: Novello, 1911).
——, One Hundred English Folk Songs (Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1916).
——, English Folk Songs (London: Novello, 1920).
——, English County Folk Songs (London: Novello, 1961).
Shepard, Leslie, The Broadside Ballad: A Study in Origins and Meaning (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1962).
——, John Pitts, Ballad Printer of Seven Dials, London (London: Private Libraries Association, 1969).
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Stokoe, John, and Samuel Reay, Songs and Ballads of Northern England (Newcastle: Walter Scott, 1899?).
Stubbs, Ken, The Life of a Man: English Folk Songs from the Home Counties (London: EFDS Publications, 1970).
Sumner, Heywood, The Besom Maker and Other Country Folk Songs (London: Longmans Green, 1888).
Thompson, Flora, Lark Rise to Candleford (originally published as three books; Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1939–43).
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, Folk-Songs from the Eastern Counties (London: Novello, 1908).
——, Eight Traditional English Carols (London: Stainer & Bell, 1919).
——, National Music and Other Essays, 2nd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987).
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, and A. L. Lloyd, The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (London: Penguin, 1959).
——, Classic English Folk Songs, edited by Malcolm Douglas (London: English Folk Dance and Song Society, 2003); new edn of The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs.
Venning, Annabel, Following the Drum: The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters, Past and Present (London: Headline, 2005).
Vicinus, Martha, Broadsides of the Industrial North (Newcastle: Frank Graham, 1975).
Westwood, Jennifer, and Jacqueline Simpson, The Lore of the Land (London: Penguin, 2005).
Whittaker, W. G., North Countrie Ballads, Songs and Pipe Tunes (London: Corwen, 1921).
Wilgus, D. K., Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship since 1898 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1959).
Williams, Alfred, Folk-Songs of the Upper Thames (London: Duckworth, 1923).
Wood, Pete, ‘John Barleycorn: The Evolution of a Song Family’, Folk Music Journal, 8:4 (2004), 438–55.
——, The Elliotts of Birtley (Todmorden: Herron, 2008).
Yates, Mike, ‘Percy Grainger and the Impact of the Phonograph’, Folk Music Journal, 4:3 (1982), 265–75.
——, Traveller’s Joy: Songs of English and Scottish Travellers and Gypsies 1965–2005 (London: English Folk Dance and Song Society, 2006).
Manuscript and Audio Collections
VWML: Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 7AY (www.efdss.org)
Take 6 website: http://library.efdss.org/archives/
At the time of writing, a major digitization project is in preparation, which it is hoped will add nearly all the remaining major English manuscript collections to the VWML’s Take 6 website, from 2013 onwards. The new project is entitled ‘Full English’ and is planned to include those collections marked ** below.
Albino, H. H. **
VWML
Baring-Gould, Sabine
Mostly Devon County Record Office, Exeter; available online on Take 6 website
Bell, John
Newcastle University Library.
Blunt, Janet
VWML; available online on Take 6 website
Broadwood, Lucy**
VWML.
Butterworth, George
VWML; available online on Take 6 website
Carey, Clive**
VWML.
Carpenter, James Madison
Library of Congress, Washington DC; digital copy and microfilm available at VWML.
Catalogue available online at http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/carpenter/
Collinson, Francis
VWML; available online on Take 6 website
Gardiner, George B.
VWML; available online on Take 6 website
Gilchrist, Anne G.
VWML; available online on Take 6 website
Grainger, Percy**
Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne; copies at VWML
Hamer, Fred **
VWML.
Hammond, H. E. D.
VWML; available online on Take 6 website
Kidson, Frank**
Mitchell Library, Glasgow
Plunkett, Mervyn
In private hands, but some items available on the British Library’s National Sound Archive website: http>//www.bl.uk/nsa
Sharp, Cecil J.**
Clare College, Cambridge University; copies at VWML
Vaughan Williams, Ralph**
British Library; microfilm copy at VWML
Williams, Alfred**
Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Chippenham; microfilm copy at VWML; transcripts on Wiltshire Council website: http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/folksongsintro.php
Major Collections of Early Broadsides
Bagford
British Library
Douce
Bodleian Library; available online on Bodlerian Broadside Ballad website: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm
Euing
Glasgow University Library; available online on English Broadside Ballad Archive: http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/
Madden
Cambridge University Library; microfilm copy available at VWML
Pepys
Cambridge University Library; available online on English Broadside Ballad Archive: http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/
Roxburghe
British Library; available online on English Broadside Ballad Archive: http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/
Major Websites
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm
English Broadside Ballad Archive: http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/
English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS): www.efdss.org
Musical Traditions Internet magazine: http://www.mustrad.org.uk/
National Sound Archive: http://www.bl.uk/nsa
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML): http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/home.cgi
Yorkshire Garland: http://www.yorkshirefolksong.net/default.aspx