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Thursday 01 May 2025, 7:30pmSteve Roud is widely recognised as one of our foremost authorities on folk song. Introducing our new library series, Folk Uncovered: Online Courses - a six week online course on Thursday evenings from 1 May. Join Steve, creator of the Roud Folk Song...
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- Author: Liberty Rowley
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'Folk Song in England' explores England’s traditional songs with Steve Roud Today EFDSS announces a brand new series of online library courses, Folk Uncovered. We're delighted the series will launch with Steve Roud, creator of the Roud Folk Song Index,...
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- Author: Liberty Rowley
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for the launch of our new website, incorporating the new platform for searching our archive catalogues, indexes and the Roud Index. It will be available for users to explore from Monday 15 April, providing the same functionality as the old site, but...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Searching and browsing Broadly speaking, the term “archives” is used at the VWML to refer to non-published material within the collections. (For published material, consult the Library Catalogue). The archives include many different formats such as...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Global search helphttps://www.efdss.org/vwml-catalogues-and-indexes/vwml-help/global-search-help
Global search enables searching across the Archives catalogues, VWML indexes, and Roud Indexes and Bibliography simultaneously, but NOT the Library catalogue or Song Subject Index. The Global search bar can be found at the very bottom of the Catalogues...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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VWML Indexes helphttps://www.efdss.org/vwml-catalogues-and-indexes/vwml-help/vwml-indexes-help
remains essentially the same today, though they are now in digital form. While the VWML Song Index overlaps with the Roud indexes it differs in important respects: it includes songs that are not ‘traditional’/do not have a Roud number and it includes...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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about, or relating in some way to, a particular subject. It is a work in progress: there are over 30,000 songs in the Roud Index, and the Subject Index currently covers only just over 1000 of them, but we are constantly adding more. Subject terms in the...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Helphttps://www.efdss.org/vwml-catalogues-and-indexes/vwml-help
They also provide access to online digital copies of significant parts of the collection. We also host the world-famous Roud Indexes to folk songs and broadsides. Additionally, we are developing a subject index to folk songs that currently contains...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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(if known). Formatted as ‘England’ or ‘Ireland’. Designed for quick filtering or searching by geographical area. Back to Roud Indexes Help
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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relevant bibliographic entry, and, by searching on that ID, grouping together all songs from the same source. . Back to Roud Indexes Help
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Roud Indexes Helphttps://www.efdss.org/vwml-catalogues-and-indexes/vwml-help/roud-indexes-help
The Roud Indexes, devised and compiled by Steve Roud, include three databases housed on the VWML website: The Folk Song Index The Broadside Index Roud Bibliography/Discography All enquiries, corrections, etc. should be sent direct to...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Current projectshttps://www.efdss.org/vwml-about-us/vwml-projects/current-projects
Additions to the archives We are continually updating the archives, and the indexes on which they are built. Digitisation projects add further collections to the archives, which are made available online when budgets allow. Gypsy and Traveller Voices...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Paul Sartin Interviewhttps://www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/11418-paul-sartin-interview
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, so I’ve had ample opportunity to rifle through them. With the help of the Library and Roud Index I’ve also sourced 11 songs from here in Whitchurch, noted from Henry Lee, a quarter of a mile from mycottage. In general,...
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- Author: Matt Reed
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In a significant milestone for the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, the thousandth song has recently been added to the Library’s Folk Song Subject Index. The song in question is The loss of the Ramillies (Roud 523), a song commemorating the shipwreck...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Folk Music Journal: Volume 7 Number 3 Volume 7 Number 3 (1997) contains the following pieces: Articles Ian A Olson, The Dreadful Death of the Bonny Earl of Murray: Clues from the Carpenter Song Collection Roy Judge, 'The Old English Morris Dance':...
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- Author: intern
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Folk Music Journal: Volume 8 Number 1 Volume 8 Number 1 (2001) contains the following pieces: Articles: Christopher B Walker, 'The Triumph' in England, Scotland and the United States A chronological survey is given of the music and the dance...
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Folk Music Journal: Volume 9 Number 2 Volume 9 Number 2 (2007) contains the following pieces: Articles: George Frampton '. . . and they calls I Buttercup Joe': Albert Richardson, the Singing Sexton of Burwash, 1905–76 Statistically, the songs...
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- Author: intern
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do – the FSSI currently contains about 600 song entries but there are currently over 30,000 unique songs as listed in the Roud index. Although the main part of the project has officially ended, we are still adding to the index and will be doing for the...
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We are pleased to announce a series of Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Lectures to be given at Chetham’s Library, in Manchester. Over the last two years the VWML has organised two highly successful series of library lectures given by leading...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Accessing the material The Full English is available to everyone for free at www.vwml.org. The search features allow you to search by first line, or collector, or title or Roud Number or place. You can also access the material physically with The Full...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: Cataloguing The Full English
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