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As I Walked Out: Sabine Baring-Gould and the Search for the Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall
by Martin Graebe ISBN 978-1-909930-53-7 420pp. £15.00 (+£3.20 p+p). For overseas postage please contact us before paying Published by Signal Books in 2017, now available from The Ballad Partners. Winner of the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award from the Folklore Society, and the W.G. Hoskins Prize from the Devon History Society. The very epitome of a Victorian… Continue reading
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Anne Geddes Gilchrist: Folk Song Scholar and Collector
By Peter Snape 222pp. £15.00 (+£3.20 p+p). For overseas postage please contact us before paying ISBN 878-1-0686406-6-7 Anne Geddes Gilchrist, OBE, FSA (1863–1954) was one of the major folk song collectors of the ‘first revival’. A remarkable woman, self-effacing, independent, and widely respected among her peers, she was the only collector who focused on her… Continue reading
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Collectomania! Revisiting the Folk Song Collectors
Edited by Steve Roud and David Atkinson ISBN 978-1-0686406-2-9 £15.00 (+£3.20 p+p). For overseas postage please contact us before paying Ten Papers from the major Collectomania conference organised by the Traditional Song Forum and the English Folk Dance and Song Society, held in London in 2024. Includes the two key-note speeches by Martin Graebe on Sabine Baring-Gould,… Continue reading
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Outlandish Knights: Essays in the Aesthetics of Ballads and Folk Songs

Selected papers from the 2018 Folk Song Conference, held at Cecil Sharp House, London. Continue reading
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Old Songs, New Discoveries

Selected papers from the 2018 Folk Song Conference, held at Cecil Sharp House, London. Continue reading
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Street Literature and the Circulation of Songs

Papers exploring the production, distribution and use of street literature, including broadside ballads, chapbooks and other cheap printed items. Continue reading
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Printers, Pedlars, Sailors, Nuns: Aspects of Street Literature

The second volume of selected papers drawing on research gathered and presented at The Broadside Day. Continue reading
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The Forgotten Songs of the Upper Thames: Folk Songs from the Alfred Williams Collection

The third volume of selected papers drawing on research gathered and presented at The Broadside Day. Continue reading
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A Notorious Chaunter in B Flat and Other Characters in Street Literature

The third volume of selected papers drawing on research gathered and presented at The Broadside Day. Continue reading
