The Ballad Partners is a not-for-profit publishing company which has been in operation since 2018. Our purpose is to raise awareness for, encourage the study of, and publish materials in the subjects of folk and traditional song, music, dance, custom, and other related fields (“The folk arts”). Learn more about us here, and about our books here.

Latest News

New Book:

We are delighted to announce the publication of Arthur Knevett’s new book, The Folk-Song Society, 1898-1932: A History. This is the first book to explore the interweaving, and sometimes competing, strands that established the Folk Song Society, sustained it through the troubled decades from the nineteenth-century fin de siècle, through the First World War, and into the 1930s, and then saw it subsumed by the folk dance movement in the period leading up to the Second World War. The book sheds new light on major figures such as Kate Lee, the Irishman A. P. Graves, the Manxman W. H. Gill, the society’s long-serving honorary secretary Lucy Broadwood, and familiar names like Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and celebrates the cultural legacy they preserved for future generations. This book will be shipping in early May, visit our store page for full details.

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