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MS 4000 - Charles Parker Archive - 1949 - 1994

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

1 - Personal Papers

2 - Career with the BBC

3 - Lectures and courses given by Charles Parker

1 - Correspondence and notes for lectures on various subjects to different organisations

1 - Various lectures, including a 'Folk and Song' weekend by MacColl, Seeger and Parker for Shropshire Youth Communities (1961) - 1955 - 1961

2 - Correspondence with Paddy Whannel of the British Film Institute; notes for lectures, newscuttings - 1957 - 1964

3 - Correspondence, notes, music, newscuttings, for classes on Folk Music at Winson Green Prison. - 1960 - 1961

4 - Correspondence, notes, papers, programmes, contacts, etc. for a 'Symposium on Research into Workers' Songs', in Prague - 1961

5 - Correspondence and notes for lectures - 1962

6 - Correspondence and notes for lectures - 1963

7 - Correspondence; notes for lectures to London County Council Teachers' Centres on the Radio Ballads - 1963 - 1966

9 - Correspondence about lectures - 1965

10 - Notes for lectures on folk music, popular culture, the permissive society, documentary form, and spoken language. - 1965

11 - Correspondence, papers and script for a day on documentary work at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke. - 1965

13 - Correspondence, papers, photograph and notes about lectures for the National Association for the Teaching of English and the English Speaking Board - 1961 - 1965

14 - Correspondence about various lectures - 1966

15 - Notes for lectures on music and documentary theatre and assessments of short tape programmes submitted for the Sutton Coldfield Youth Festival, which was judged by Charles Parker - 1966

16 - Correspondence, text and newscuttings for a speech arguing the need to establish a School of Urban and Industrial Folk Studies, given as the Sheldon Memorial Lecture, 1966 - 1966

17 - Correspondence about various lectures - 1967

18 - Papers, correspondence and notes about a conference on 'Folk Song and the Schools' at Jordanhill, Glasgow - 1967

19 - Notes, folk song lyrics, etc. for a lecture on 'The Ballad: Traditional, Broadside, Literary', at the Birmingham and Midland Institute. - 1967

20 - Notes, correspondence, newscuttings, tape extracts for various lectures to branches of the National Association for the Teaching of English - 1967

21 - Correspondence about various lectures - 1968

22 - Correspondence about various lectures - 1969 - 1971

23 - Notes for lectures on 'Tradition and the Tape Recorder'; 'The Radio Ballad and Documentary'; courses at Trent Polytechnic and Wolverhampton Teacher Training College. - 1969 - 1970

24 - Correspondence, papers and notes on the 7th Annual Conference of the National Association for the Teaching of English. - 1970

25 - Papers, correspondence and tape transcripts for lectures given at London Institute of Education, Hornsey College of Art and Poulton le Fylde College - 1971

26 - Correspondence and papers for various lectures - 1972

27 - Correspondence and papers for various lectures and teaching courses - 1973

28 - Papers and materials for a course on 'Crisis in Communication' - 1973

29 - Correspondence and papers for various lectures - 1974

30 - Papers, notes and scripts for lectures and teaching courses: 'Self Regard' to the Family Service Unit; Comunication and Design course at North East London Polytechnic; 'Speech, Song and the Miner' at University College, Swansea; '1972 and 1974 Miners' Strikes' to the Birmingham Marxist Study Group; 'A Tape Recorder in China: Chinese folk music' for SACU; 'Protest and Culture' for Gwent WEA; 'In other Peoples' Words' to a Writers' Summer School, Derbys. - 1974

31 - Correspondence, notes and papers for lectures on various subjects, including: the Art of Work'; 'A Face in the Crowd: pop song, the manipulated ritual'; a Worker-Writer symposium, incl. minutes of an ad-hoc meeting to set up a Worker-Writer group in Birmingham; a NATE conference session on working with audio-visual media - 1975

32 - Correspondence, notes and papers for lectures on various subjects, including: vernacular speech; pop song; media and tradition; 'people as storytellers'; 'the common tongue'. Includes 3 issues of 'Teaching London Kids'; a copy of 'People Talking' from Exeter; 'The Living Word', an anthology from Hertfordshire County Council. - 1976

33 - Correspondence and papers about a lecture course on 'The Common Tongue', at Goldsmith's College, London - 1977

34 - Correspondence and notes about a lecture course on 'The Common Tongue' at Reading University and about various other lectures - 1978

35 - Correspondence, notes and papers for a course on the history of sound media and a conference on social education at Nottingham University; this latter includes papers delivered and studies of communities. Parker, representing NOWT, the Nottingham Out of Work Teenagers Project, was talking on the use of audio resources in social education. Includes a job application to the University of East Anglia - 1979

36 - Correspondence about a course to be given at National Association for the Teaching of English conference at Sheffield, recording working class speech with Rotherham steel workers - 1980 - 1981

37 - Newscuttings and articles on language, culture, education, etc. collected as 'lecture material' - 1970 - 1972

38 - Notes 'Radio splicing, editing, the human voice' - n.d.

2 - Lectures for the Workers Educational Association and the University of Birmingham Extra-Mural Department

3 - Lectures delivered by Charles Parker to students at the Polytechnic of Central London on communication and media studies

4 - Lectures and courses attended by Charles Parker

5 - Research applications and other professional work

6 - Publications by Charles Parker

7 - Friends, contacts, personal correspondents

8 - Membership of societies and organisations

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

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