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Study Guides and Research Aids

Below is a list of study guides to help you find books, published and archival material relating to Folk Arts and research.

  • An Introductory Bibliography of Traditional Social Folk Dance (March 2019)

  • An Introductory Bibliography on Clog and Step Dancing

  • An Introductory Bibliography on Morris Dancing

  • Peter Kennedy's published recordings of British and Irish traditional music and related material : an annotated discography

  • Sword Dancing in Britain: An Annotated Bibliography based on the Holdings of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library of EFDSS
     

See also: A note on the citation of unpublished material by or relating to Cecil Sharp.

More guides will be added once we have transferred them into a digital format.

 

 

 

 

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