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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
1 - Sound recordings of interviews with traditional folk performers and folk music collectors.
1 - Harry Cox (b.1885)
2 - Harry Horton (b. 1875)
3 - Betsy Miller (born c.1886)
4 - Wednesbury Folk Singers
5 - Joe Heaney (1919-1984)
6 - Mrs Cecilia Costello
7 - Charlotte Brooks
8 - Charlie Burke (1918-2001)
9 - George Dunn (1887-1975)
10 - Captain Alfred Ernest Horton (1883-1974)
11 - English folk music and song: general
12 - English and Scottish Song (Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger)
13 - Francis J Child Ballads (England and Scotland)
14 - England Series 1 -12; England A' Roving
15 - `Scottish Folk Music
16 - Ireland Series 1-14
17 - Irish Folk Music
18 - Travellers and West Midlands Gypsy Liaison Group (WMGLG)
1 - Sound recording of radio programme 'Regional Extra' with feature on travellers and permanent residents of Woolerton, Nottinghamshire - 17 June 1966
2 - Sound recording of 'Brownhills Tinkers' singing - 01 October 1967
3 - Sound recording of 'pitch and toss' game and 'Brownhills Tinkers' singing Irish traditional songs - 01 October 1967
4 - Sound recording of 'Tinkers Kids' singing songs and skipping songs. - n.d. [09 July 1968]
5 - Sound recording of heated discussion with residents of Camp Hill [Birmingham] and their opposition to travellers settled near them - n.d. [09 July 1968]
6 - Sound recording of Mr Ward, 'Irish tinker' playing the accordion at 'The Ship', Camp Hill [Birmingham] with the 'tinkers' of Camp Hill, Ravens House Street - [12 July 1968]
7 - Sound recording of interview of Thomas Acton, a Romany linguist of Nuffield College, Oxford discussing the Romany language and culture. Tape 1 - 14 April 1970
8 - Sound recording of interview of Thomas Acton, a Romany linguist of Nuffield College, Oxford discussing the Irish 'tinker' language, 'gypsy' taboos, culture and the formulation of Gypsy Liaison Committees. Tape 2 - 14 April 1970
9 - Sound recording of Russian 'gypsy' woman singing to music - 15 April 1970
10 - Sound recording of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire radio news bulletin with interview of Councillor Geoffrey Brotherton, Chairman of City Highways Committee on the subject of creating a permanent site for travellers in Stoke - 24 June 1970
11 - Sound recording of radio programme [ATV Today] with feature on travellers in Walsall - n.d. [22 September 1970]
12 - Sound recording of radio programme 'ATV Today' with discussion on travellers in Walsall and creation of a permanent site. Response to radio programme on previous evening (MS 4000/5/1/18/11) - 23 September 1970
A - Original reel audio tape.
B - 1 Tape box (annotated): ' ATV Today 6.10pm Wed 23 Sep. Alan Towers 2 '
C - 1 x CD-R (listening copy of a 1 x 5" reel audio tape)
19 - Greece: Traditional music from Mount Plio Peninsula, Central Greece and Samarina, Pndhos Mountains, Western Greece
20 - World Music
2 - Sound recordings of lectures and teaching materials by Charles Parker and others relating to folk music and the oral tradition
3 - Folk Revival performance material
4 - Discussion of folk music and performance
6 - Sound recordings: programmes, projects and research material - 1955 - 1994
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