Our final Library Lecture is next week. Looking forward to welcoming @drmarylshannon.bsky.social whom I have known for quite some time!

I think this is going to be really good

Our next Library Lecture, given by Katie Howson, is coming up on Tuesday 11th March. She'll be talking about song collecting and the vernacular cultural life of Southwold in Suffolk. Book at the link! www.efdss.org/whats-on/61-...

We're running an online course on folk song in England, delivered by Steve Roud, England's most renowned authority on folk song. It promises to be wonderful, so come and join us! www.efdss.org/whats-on/28-...

Broadside Day, Sat 22 Feb, is a one-day conference for people interested in Street Literature and Cheap Print in all its fascinating aspects, run by @efdss.bsky.social and the Traditional Song Forum at @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social . Tickets available at www.efdss.org/whats-on/61-.... Join us!

A new departure for me as I will be co-supervising this PhD in partnership with my postgrad alma mater, UCL Department of Information Studies! If you know anyone who might be interested, please pass it on; the deadline is fairly tight....

Check out our Spotify playlist with @efdss.bsky.social staff's festive picks... and head to our TikTok to find out who chose what and why!

Here is a nice thing for #Christmas from our collections at @efdss.bsky.social: a copy of #VaughanWilliams Fantasia on Christmas Carols, with a personal dedication from the composer to #CecilSharp. It also features one of Sharp’s rather lovely personal book plates.

Delighted! Thank you so much everyone! This will really make a difference.

Join our Big Give #ChristmasChallenge now, and your donation will be doubled! Help to uncover ‘Hidden Gems’ from our archive, including materials collected by ‘Father of the West Country folk revival’ Cyril Tawney (1930–2005) www.efdss.org/biggive Photo credit Gordon Read

Four days left to donate to our @biggive.bsky.social campaign! Every pound counts! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Asking nicely.... We're raising money to catalogue three important collections, those of Cyril Tawney, Roy Judge and John Earl. There is so much here for #folk researchers, and currently it's undiscoverable! You have one week so don't delay!

A journal article by *me*, with colleagues from UEA & Sheffield, is out today in Music & Minorities! We discuss #Romani singers & folk song in England, & how one might open up an archive (specifically @efdss.bsky.social) to reveal it. Open access, here! mm.journals.qucosa.de/mm/article/v...

There will hopefully also be more art prints, like this ring tailed lemur (yes, I do love a lemur).... www.etsy.com/uk/listing/9...

New for 2024, painted cheeseboards! I need to upload a LOT more jewellery, which will happen in the next week or so. No doubt I will self-promote again at that point.... www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

Seeing as I seem to have joined another social networking site, I might as well use it to advertise my ETSY SHOP! After Advent comes Christmas, I am told, and if you want to support a VERY small business.... tiffanyartuk.etsy.com

Give this amazing orchestra (in which I happen to play) a follow! They do such inventive and unusual programmes; this one was a flautist's dream....

Announcing our @biggive.bsky.social appeal: ‘Hidden Gems’, which will focus on three important dance and song collections which have already been donated to of our Library’s archive and which we want to make available to everyone. Donate between 3 and 10 December for twice the impact.