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MS 4000 - Charles Parker Archive - 1949 - 1994

1 - Personal papers and papers relating to Charles Parker's career

2 - Papers relating to BBC programmes and non BBC projects - 1949 - 1980

3 - Miscellaneous papers and publications on various subjects

4 - Charles Parker's Library

5 - Digitised Sound Recordings: Charles Parker Archive 'A Future For Ordinary Folk' - 1947 - 1978

6 - Sound recordings: programmes, projects and research material - 1955 - 1994

1 - Programmes and projects - BBC and non-BBC - 1955 - 1980

2 - Research interests: music, drama, and speech - 1951 - 1988

3 - Research interests: politics and local history - 1957 - 1978

1 - Tinplate Trust Fellowship - 1976

2 - China - [1966 - 1974]

3 - Various - 1957 - 1978

1 - George Percy Hobbs, a traveller from Wisbech - 11 October 1957

2 - George Percy Hobbs, a traveller from Wisbech - 11 October 1957

3 - George Percy Hobbs, a traveller from Wisbech - 11 October 1957

4 - Interview with Harriet Booth, a traveller/a short extract from 'The Ballad of John Axon' - 1958

5 - Interviews at the Albion foundry in the Black Country and in the surrounding area - 1958 - 1961

6 - Service Airn Bung – recording of a church service - 20 March 1960

7 - Service Airn Bung – recording of a church service - 20 March 1960

8 - GE Bacon of Youlgrave, Derbyshire - 25 June 1961

9 - Mr and Mrs Mason talk about how working conditions have changed - 18 July 1961

10 - Interview with Mr and Mrs Mason about the jewellery and blacksmith trade in Birmingham - 18 July 1961

11 - A man talks about Christianity and the church - 23 January 1963

12 - Millie Price, a suffragette, talks to Tony Rice - 21 October 1964

13 - BBC weather report/selection of fishermen’s sayings - 1963 - 1964

14 - Interview with John Muldowney, a knife grinder - 01 March 1966

15 - Rhodesia/USA in Vietnam/ Billy Graham in Birmingham in 1966 - 1966

16 - Interview with Mary Lynch of Handsworth Traveller Family - 09 June 1967

18 - Anthony Wigan talks about the current conflict in the Middle East - 14 November 1967

19 - Charles Wheeler reports on the new American Presidential candidate - 14 November 1967

20 - Inder Ruprah, an Indian teenager living in England - 31 January 1968

21 - Inder Ruprah, an Indian teenager living in England - 31 January 1968

22 - Inder Ruprah, an Indian teenager living in England - 31 January 1968

23 - Arthur Biggs talks about his memories of the City of Birmingham - 13 March 1969

24 - Tape labelled 'Madame Binh' - participants at Paris peace talks give views on situation in Vietnam - 06 April 1969

25 - Discussion about halting sites for travellers in Walsall - 22 April 1969

26 - Radio discussion between Enoch Powell and Jim Rose about immigration - 26 July 1969

27 - Report on BBC finances given by the Director General - 21 October 1969

28 - Report on BBC finances given by the Director General - 21 October 1969

29 - Tape labelled 'Group B documentary 1970' - interviews and songs about the generation gap - 13 April 1970

30 - Interview with Lucy Woodall, a chainmaker - 05 October 1970

31 - Lecture by Peter Hall, Professor of Town Planning comparing urban areas in Britain and america - 14 February 1971

32 - Queens Club Dinner - 19 June 1971

33 - 1816 Bread riots – Clifford Cousins reads from documents written by Ely rioters - 21 June 1971

34 - People talk about Victoria Station in Nottingham - 1971

35 - George Thomson on workers speech, China, fuel in snowy winter - 1971

36 - George Thomson on workers speech, China, fuel in snowy winter - 1971

36A - George Thomson on workers speech, China, fuel in snowy winter - 1972

37 - Interview with Harry Cooper about barrel making/interview with Andrew Tosh tape 1 of 2 - 14 January 1972

38 - Interview with Harry Cooper about barrel making/interview with Andrew Tosh tape 2 of 2 - 14 January 1972

39 - An interview with a woman called Gladys about working in a hospital - 22 March 1972

40 - Dawn Isleworth - 07 May 1972

42 - John Fletcher talks about life in the Black Country tape 1 of 2 - 19 August 1973

43 - John Fletcher talks about life in the Black Country tape 2 of 2 - 19 August 1973

44 - Lecture by Dr John Fletcher about the history of the Black Country - 19 August 1973

45 - Student talks about a protest at Essex University - 28 March 1974

46 - Various: interviews with miners, Chinese discussion about money and hard times, 2 stories - 18 May 1974

47 - Beauty contest in Doncaster; a story about a mythical Greek soldier ‘The Iron Sergeant’, speech by Lawrence Daly, a union leader, about the changes the union wants to make in the industry - 15 June 1974

48 - Charles Parker talks to Bessy Lou Parker and Frank Joyce about mining and unions in Kentucky - 04 February 1976

49 - Charles Parker talks to Bessy Lou Parker and Frank Joyce about mining and unions in Kentucky - 04 February 1976

50 - Frank Joyce talks about American football - 11 February 1976

51 - Bessy Lou Parker talks about picketing at Brookside coalmine, Harlem County, Kentucky - 1976

52 - Bessy Lou Parker talks about her experiences on the picket line at Brookside mine during a strike; John Podmore - 1977

53 - Charlie Smalburn talks about gardening, chair leg making, playing the mouth organ - 20 March 1978

54 - Interview with a group of builders - 16 August 1978

55 - Tattoos/fairgrounds/market traders - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

56 - Interviews with people about tattoos - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

57 - Charles Parker interviews Mike Cooley – Lucas Aerospace shop steward, plus two songs; interview and song, possibly about the First or Second World War - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

58 - Sounds of Birmingham street/folk songs - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

59 - Tape labelled 'Hindu Temple' - recording of a religious ceremony - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

60 - Tape labelled 'Frank Johnson – Race in Birmingham 1967' - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

61 - Speeches by Mussolini and Hitler - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

62 - Sounds recorded in the Bull Ring, Birmingham and sound track from ‘The White South Africans’ - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

63 - A short extract about the development of Australia - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

64 - Mrs Lucy Taylor talks about her thoughts on being of old age - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

65 - Anthony Wigan talks about the current conflict in the Middle East - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

66 - Interview with E.M. Powell about living on the street - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

67 - Several takes of an interview about a traveller's life - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

68 - Clips about immigration, apartheid, prayers; lecture by Charles Parker about folk music given to a group of guides and scouts - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

69 - Possibly a religious ceremony or performance at a gudwara - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

70 - Interview with Mike Cobley, Lucas Aerospace and Jacqueline Sutton, possibly Irish, lives in Nottingham - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

71 - Actuality – workers in a steel foundry; copy of ‘Voice of the People’, a radio debate concerning role of teachers - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

72 - A man talks about African-American culture - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

73 - Interviews with young people about looking for work and about unemployment - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

74 - Discussion about a miner killed during a picket at Kidby power station - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

75 - Sound effects from Angel market - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

76 - Jimmy Miller gives a speech about a miners strike - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

77 - Robert Carver talks about politics: Suez, Northern Ireland, the BBC, and the licence fee - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

78 - Charles Parker interviews an unidentified person about immigration into Britain - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

79 - A man named Jack talks about drug addiction - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

80 - Discussion about the relationships between children and adults and education - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

81 - Conversation with members of a miners’ union - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

82 - Charles Andrews, a sailor in the late nineteenth century, talks about his experiences - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

83 - Charles Parker reads a letter he has written to the author Sheila Smith, criticizing her book about Victorian social problem novels - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

84 - Mr Brian Davies talks about hunting and songs - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

85 - Actuality about mining and comparison to other industries and jobs - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

86 - Charles Parker talks to Mr Baker, probably a traveller or a homeless man, about local place-names and people, gypsies and tinkers in the area, his childhood, his future, religion, other people worse off than he. - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

87 - Clips from interviews discussing the generation gap - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

88 - Charles Washington talks about American and British culture - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

89 - Interviews about mining and pits - n.d. [mid twentieth century - late twentieth century]

90 - Charles Parker talks to a Scottish miner and his wife - n.d. [1970s]

91 - Charles Parker talks to Pete McGuire, a youth worker from the East End of London tape 1 of 3 - 30 June 1971

92 - Charles Parker talks to Pete McGuire, a youth worker from the East End of London - tape 2 of 3 - 30 June 1971

93 - Charles Parker talks to Pete McGuire, a youth worker from the East End of London tape 3 of 3 - 30 June 1971

4 - Copies of TV and radio programmes - 1950 - 1978

5 - Remembering Charles Parker and the Radio Ballads: programmes, events, and interviews - 1981 - 1993

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