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English Folk Dance and Song Society: Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
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Cecil Sharp House
2 Regents Park Road
London
England
NW1 7AY
Telephone: 020 7485 2206
Email: library@efdss.org
Open: Tu-F 9.30-5.30; 1st & 3rd Sa each month (except Aug) 10-4; The Sound Library is closed 12-2 every day
- Book in advance
- A fee may be payable
The collections are generally open to the public, although access to the sound collection is restricted and researchers should contact the Librarian for further details.
Letter of introduction requiredARCHON code: 1477
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Collections information
Organisations (3)
Persons (16)
- Albino, Harry Hurlbutt, (1889-1957), Folk song collector and composer
- Blunt, Janet, (1859-1950), Folk Song Collector
- Broadwood, Lucy Etheldred, (1858-1929), folk song collector
- Butterworth, George Sainton Kaye, (1885-1916), Composer and Folk Song Collector
- Carey, Francis Clive Savill, (1883-1968), singer and folk song collector
- Collinson, Francis M, (1898-1985), folklorist and musician
- Fox-Strangways, Arthur Henry, (1859-1948), English musicologist
- Gardiner, George, (1852-1910), Folk Song Collector
- Gilchrist, Anne Geddes, (1863-1954), Folk Song Collector
- Granville-Barker, Harley, (1877-1946), actor, dramatist and critic
- Hammond, Henry, (1866-1910), folklorist
- Hammond, Robert, (b 1868), folklorist
- Karpeles, Maud, (1885-1976), Folk song collector
- Kidson, Frank, (1855-1926), Antiquary
- Oppe, Adolph Paul, (1878-1957), Art Historian
- Sharp, Cecil James, (1859-1924), Musician Author Folk Song Collector
Families (1)
- Broadwood family of Lyne Lyne, Surrey;Capel, Surrey;Newdigate, Surrey;Rusper, Sussex;Warnham, Sussex
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (9)
- NRA 43841 Harry Hurlbutt Albino, folk song collector and composer: notebooks and MSS
- NRA 35006 Janet Blunt, folk song collector: song and dance MSS collection
- NRA 35004 Lucy Etheldred Broadwood, folk song collector: musical MSS collection
- NRA 35007 George Butterworth, composer and folk song collector: papers
- NRA 43842 Francis M Collinson, folklorist and musician: song notation and corresp
- NRA 35005 George Gardiner, folk song collector: musical MSS collection
- NRA 43843 Anne Geddes Gilchrist, folk song collector: corresp and papers
- NRA 43844 Maud Karpeles, folk song collector: corresp and papers
- NRA 34987 Cecil Sharp, musician and folk song collector: corresp and papers