The Ballad Partners

by Arthur Knevett

ISBN 978-1-0686406-7-4

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Publication date 1^st May 2026

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.