| AdminHistory | This series of tapes provides a varied introduction to the work of both Ewan MacColl (1915-1989) and his wife, Peggy Seeger, (born 1935) who both participated fully in left wing political activity, performance, lecturing, music and song writing and the promotion of traditional music and the folk revival. Many of the English and Scottish songs featured here were released on record labels and this has been noted in the descriptions. The second and third tapes record Ewan MacColl singing from Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, first published in 1765 and from Hyder Edward Rollins edition of The Pepys Ballads, which is the largest surviving collection of English ballads printed in London in the seventeenth century and a great source for English popular culture.
Other recordings include radio programmes of ' The British Oral Tradition ' (MS 4000/5/1/12/5) and ' On The Wings Of Song ' (MS 4000/5/1/12/9). The last tape ends with Charles Parker interviewing workers with visual impairment in an engineering shop in Berkshire (MS 4000/5/1/12/11). |