English Folk Dance and Song Society

Saturday 23 February 2013

9.30am – 5.30pm

Cecil Sharp House, London

Our fourth annual one day event exploring all aspects of Street Literature and Popular Print Traditions.
 
The Broadside Day is an annual gathering of people interested in street literature and other forms of cheap printed material from past centuries, such as broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, and popular engravings.
 
Morning programme (exact order, tbc)
9.30am – 1pm
 
Lewis Jones
‘Has tha all gone soft?’ Nineteenth Century British Broadsides with Happy Endings
 
E. Wyn James
Illustrating Welsh Broadside Ballads, 1620-1840
 
Isabel Corfe
Representations of Irishness in London’s Nineteenth-Century Broadside Ballads
 
Roy Palmer
The Floating Parliament: the Naval Mutinies of 1797 and their Songs
 
Colin Bargery
‘The Charming Young Widow I Met on the Train’: The moral panic caused by women especially working-class women, travelling by train and the epidemic of venereal disease in the mid-nineteenth century
 
Nigel Tallis
Thoroughbred Song: Skewball, Creeping Jane and other racehorses

Afternoon programme
2 – 5pm

The launch of the Integrated Broadside Ballad Archive (IBBA) project, a JISC-funded co-operative venture involving by the Bodleian Library, the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), the English Broadside Ballad Archive project (EBBA) at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the Roud Broadside Index. There will be an explanation of the project, demonstrations, hands on tutorials, question-and-answer session, and so on.
 
More info
 
Contact Steve Roud via sroud@btinternet.com for more information.
 
Tickets
£12 (£10 for EFDSS or Traditional Song Forum members)

Book now
Musicglue
Ticketline | 0844 888 9991
Tickets can also be purchased from the reception desk at Cecil Sharp House (in person only). Monday – Friday, 9.30am – 5.30pm.
(Please note, buying in person is the only way to avoid paying a booking fee.)
 
Promoted by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) with the Traditional Song Forum

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