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All in the Downs
Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song
Shirley Collins
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Beeswing
Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967 to 1975
Richard Thompson
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Bert
The Life and Times of A. L. Lloyd
Dave Arthur
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Dazzling stranger
Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival
Colin Harper
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Furious Devotion
The Authorised Story of Shane MacGowan
Richard Balls
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I Never Played to Many Posh Dances
Scan Tester, Sussex Musician, 1887-1972
Reg Hall
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I’ve always kept a unicorn
the biography of Sandy Denny
Mick Houghton
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Journeyman
An Autobiography
Ewan MacColl
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The Folk Music Revival, 1958-1970
Biographies of Fifty Performers and Other Influential People
David Dicaire
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Customs & Country Life
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The Stations of the Sun
A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
Ronald Hutton
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Akenfield
Portrait of an English Village
Ronald Blythe
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Britain’s Folklore Year
a Seasonal Journey Through Our Customs, Celebrations and Rituals
Mark Norman, National Trust Books
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Once a Year
Some Traditional British Customs
Homer Sykes
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The Pattern Under the Plough
Aspects of the Folk-Life of East Anglia
George Ewart Evans
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The Year in Ireland
Irish Calendar Customs
Kevin Danaher
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English Music
Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr
Eliza Carthy, Nancy Kerr
The Moral Of The Elephant
Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy
Folk Music
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Electric Eden
Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music
Rob Young
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Folk Song in England
The full history, first published in 2017
Steve Roud
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As I Walked Out
Sabine Baring-Gould and the Search for the Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall
Martin Graebe
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Electric Muse Revisited
The Story of Folk into Rock and Beyond
Dave Laing, Robin Denselow, Shelton, Robert
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Folk music
a very short introduction
Mark Slobin
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Folk Song in England
The classic study, first published in 1967
A. L. Lloyd
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Singing from the Floor
A History of British Folk Clubs
J. P. Bean
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White Bicycles
Making Music in the 1960s
Joe Boyd
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Folk Music (American)
Books
Folk city
New York and the American folk music revival
Stephen Petrus
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North American Folk Music Revival
Nation and Identity in the United States and Canada, 1945 1980
Gillian Mitchell
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Recordings
Folk Song Collections
Classic English folk songs
selected and edited by R. Vaughn Williams and A. L. Lloyd ; revised by Malcom Douglas ; forewrod by Martin Carthy
Shanties from the Seven Seas
Shipboard Work-Songs from the Great Days of Sail
Stan Hugill
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The Oxford Book of Carols
Percy Dearmer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Martin Shaw
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Folk Tune Collections
Before the Night Was Out…
Polkas, Hornpipes, Jigs, Schottisches and Waltzes Transcribed from Traditional Players in Norfolk and Suffolk
Katie Howson
Bonny Cumberland
Music from the manuscripts of fiddlers in the Lake District c.1750–1880
John Offord
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Complete Country Dance Tunes
From Playford's Dancing Master (1651-ca.1728)
John Ford, Jeremy Barlow (Arranger), John Playford
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O’Neill’s Music of Ireland
Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Melodies
Francis O'Neill
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The English Dancing Master
Or, Plaine and Easie Rules for the Dancing of Country Dances, With the Tune to Each Dance
John Playford
The Great Northern Tunebook
William Vickers' Collection of Dance Tunes, AD1770
Matt Seattle
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Folklore
A Treasury of British Folklore
Maypoles, Mandrakes & Mistletoe
Dee Dee Chainey
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Blood and Mistletoe
The History of the Druids in Britain
Ronald Hutton
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Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies
Banshees, Boggarts and Other Folklore Creatures
Katharine Briggs
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Folklore
A journey through the past and present
Owen Davies, Ceri Houlbrook
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Little Book of Folklore
An Introduction to Ancient Myths and Legends of the UK and Ireland
Kitty Greenbrown
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Popular Magic
Cunning-folk in English History
Owen Davies
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The Lore of Scotland
A Guide to Scottish Legends
Jennifer Westwood, Sophia Kingshill
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The Lore of the Playground
The Children's World Then and Now
Steve Roud
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The Triumph of the Moon
A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
Ronald Hutton
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Irish Music
Books
O’Neill’s Music of Ireland
Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Melodies
Francis O'Neill
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The Irish Fiddle Book
The Art of Traditional Fiddle Playing
Matt Cranitch
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Recordings
Noel Hill / Tony Linnane
Noel Hill and Tony Linnane
The Irish Concertina 3
Live in New York.
Noel Hill
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Morris
History and the Morris Dance
A Look at Morris Dancing from Its Earliest Days Until 1850
Dr John Cutting
Morris Dance Tunes
Cecil James Sharp, George Butterworth
Shanties
Books
Shanties from the Seven Seas
Shipboard Work-Songs from the Great Days of Sail
Stan Hugill
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Recordings
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