BROADSIDE DAY 2012

Our third annual 1-day event exploring aspects of Street Literature and Popular Print Traditions

Saturday 25th February 2012
9.30am - 5.30pm

Cecil Sharp House
2 Regents Park Road
London NW1 7AY

Organised jointly by the English Folk Dance & Song Society and Traditional Song Forum

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Speakers include:

• E Wyn James (In Merthyr on Saturday Night..: The Ballads and Balladmongers of Glamorgan)
• Colin Bargery (The Song of Steam: A Broadside History of the Railway 1820-1870)
• Desdemona Mccannon (Contemporary Chapbook Makers and Illustrators)
• Anna Guigne ("Old Brown's Daughter")
• Lewis Jones (Broadside Ballads with Tunes Attached)
• Martin Graebe (The Swimming Lady and the Mountain of Hair: Sabine Baring-Gould and street literature)
• Paul Smith (Traditional Drama in Chapbooks)
• Giles Bergel (Martin Parker's Wandering Jew's Chronicle; plus New Developments at the Bodleian and EBBA)
• Chris Wright ('All You Lovers of Song': Broadsides and the Song Tradition of Scots Travellers)