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FW’s  FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest
in folk studies & folk culture:  the FT pages
20 A4 print pages, 4pp colour, 16pp mono

IN THIS ISSUE:

Articles
  • Sunderland Songs by Eileen Richardson and Keith Gregson, p4-5
  • John Callister (1833–1912) And His Songs, by Stephen Miller, p6-7 
  • Married to a Mermaid, by Charles Menteith, p8-9
  • Remnants and Yarns – Poverty and protest in the woollen industry in Bradford on Avon by Rosie MacGregor (Rosie Upton), p9
  • The Banks of the Nile, by Roy & Lesley Adkins, p10-11
  • Here we go a-wassailing in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire by Rosie Upton,  p12 

Folklife Societies news
  • Access Folk, p7. Trac Cymru, p12. Pedlars Pack, TSF, FLS, p13
Books & recordings announced & adverts, 
  • Saydisc recordings 'Matchbox Bluesmaster Series', 12 sets, p5
  • Remnants and Yarns, p9
  • The Roots of Welsh Border Morris, p11
  • ​Tunelines, p11 ​
  • So Sound you Sleep: My Shropshire Songs and their Stories, by David Harley, p11
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Folklife Traditions Journal 73, May 2023
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FTJ 73,
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In memory of Roy Palmer, right, a generous contributor of researched articles for our Folklife Traditions pages, freely donated for over 30 years, from the days of FW’s predecessor, the Somers’ Broadsheet, Aug 1983, to 2014.
​And in memory of Gwilym Davies, another long-time contributor.

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Our readers

The sort of people who might well be interested but just don't know about you.
Whilst we do have members who are e.g. members of TSF, EFDSS, etc, and know all about what you do ...
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This does not mean they are not interested !!
Accordingly, contributions do not have to be original - they could be cut and pasted from your existing web article(s).
If you look at the Index: ISSUES on this site, the Folklife Traditions Journal within Folklife West magazine, - an index of all FT issues, which gives a flavour of what we do - links to all FT issues in e-mag format.  
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Word limits may be exceeeded if we think the material particularly relevant to our readers.
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