@IslingtonFolk@TheEFDSS On 12th March I am contributing to Matt Quinn's In the Roud @InTheRoud podcast talking about the history the ballad The Cruel Brother (Child 11, Roud 26).
@IslingtonFolk At the EFDSS @TheEFDSS / TSF Broadside Day on 22nd February at Cecil Sharp House I'm be presenting paper on a nineteenth century broadside printer called John Powell.
Do falling interest rates signal better times ahead? In the lead up to the election, David Smith, economics editor, The Sunday Times, examines the impact of interest rates on different groups.
Great work from @joncraig, as you'd expect. But again, this is a symptom not a cause of the wider malaise. Normalising lies to get Brexit 'done', lionising Johnson's self-promotion as his moral depravity escalated, praising Truss's budget etc. Plums like Holden watched & learned.
Final prep for the next Turtle Travels adventure…
From early afternoon, I’m going to try to answer another crucial q: how far can you get, latitude-wise, from the Greenwich Meridian, using public transport, in 24 hours?
Join me and Mrs Turtle as we (spoiler alert!) #GoEast
#OTD ten years ago, the launch of "The Full English" @cecilsharphouse a groundbreaking online resource from @efdss. Check it out at https://t.co/Xpdwo9rA1g
@NewJournal The car wash site developers have already encroched on the pavement. Why do they need even more? They should plan a safe system of work that doesn't mean massive inconvenience to bus passengers and pedestrians.
I'm doing one of my infrequent bookings at @IslingtonFolk on 23rd March. English traditional material together with music hall and maybe the odd gem from Clive James & Pete Atkin.
Happy #WorldBookDay from the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. We also have pamphlets, periodicals, press cuttings, broadsides, paintings, photographs, slides, artefacts, vinyl, reel-to-reel tapes, phonograph cylinders, CDs, cassettes, cine films...