FTJ: 
Folklife Traditions Journal 80-89:
2026 Jul, FTJ 80,
to   FTJ 89
* from 2026  from 2 / year to 3 / year 

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Folklife Traditions Journal

Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture:
we seek to raise awareness of relevant Societies, Institutions, Researchers, Publications

​We welcome your learned articles for interested readers, but note we’re not a peer-reviewed journal.
• Please see  Articles Index  for past articles.

​CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME for appropriate articles; contact us first, please. See "FTJ: contribute & contribute" 
• Articles - check first if timely, as might be held over; up to 2500 words.
• News up to 200 words, we can usually fit in if received by deadline.
We welcome:
• Songs, tunes, dances, & stories collected
• Information about relevant Societies & Institutions & Researchers, Conferences & Talks 
• Relevant books announced (exceptionally CDs eg traditional singers) - up to 200 words, more if advert, or at editor’s discretion
• Seasonal Local Celebrations, based on Doc Rowe’s listings, additions welcome

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2026 Jul - FTJ 80 - the biggest yet, 24 A4 pages.
    FTJ was March & Nov., now 3x a year, this is the first July FTJ

24 A4 print pages, all mono. Print cover (pp1,2,23,24) cream paper; rest white paper.
11 Researched Articles
  • There were three Ravens; a song of sublime love, by Ian Pittaway, p2-4
  • Baring-Gould’s People 4 – The Uglow Sisters, by Martin Graebe, p5-7. Includes song The Squire of Tamworth 
  • The Withy Tree Carol, a version from Evesham, by Charles Menteith, p8
  • The Suicide Arms, by Charles Menteith, p9 
  • The Seeds of Love, Two versions in GlosTrad, Henry Thomas and Willian 'Daddy' Shepherd, by Veronica Lowe, p10-11
  • Camborne’s Trevithick Day, by Lamorna Spry, pp12-13. Includes song Camborne Hill 
  • Of Folk and Fishing — Part 1 of 2: The Tunes, by Keith Gregson, p14-15
  • No Bread and No Roses, by Rosie Upton, p16-17
  • Press Gangs on the Tyne — Part 1 of 2, by Jim Mageean, including various songs, p18-19
  • The Seven Wonders (Y Saith Rhyfeddod) by Mick Tems, p20
  • Tunes from the Isle of Man: Three Tunes recorded from Thomas Kermode by Dr John Clague, by Stephen Miller, p21
Folklife news: societies & organisations, researchers, publications
  • Pedlars Pack, p6 • Saydisc, p7  •  Access Folk, p9  
  • The Folklore Society;  The Archivist, a film about Doc Rowe; The Ballad Partners; all on p17 
  • The Mick Tems Archive, p20  • Cornish National Music Archive; Folk Legacy Books [Annie Jones], both p21
  • and all on p22: EFDSS & Vaughan Williams Memorial Library; Trac Cymru, p22;  [Editorial] Renaming EFDSS, p22;  In The Roud podcasts;; Traditional Song Forum
Seasonal Local Celebrations, July to October, list & photos, mostly by Doc Rowe, p24
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2026 Nov - FTJ 81

20 A4 print pages, all mono. Print cover (pp1,2,19,20) cream paper; rest white paper.
9 Researched Articles
  • Carols from Ashton-under-Hill, by Charles Menteith: 1. All Hail and Praise.   Trad, arr. Amy Robeson, p2 
  • Tunes from the Isle Of Man:  Two Manx Tunes from Catherine Ann Lawson (1839–1917) of Jurby  by Stephen Miller, p3
  • Of Folk and Fishing (Part 2 of 2): The Authors, by Keith Gregson, pp4-5
  • Press Gangs on the Tyne (Part 2 of 2), including various songs, by Jim Mageean, pp6-7 
  • Baring-Gould’s People. 5 – Thomas Cayzer, by Martin Graebe. Including song & music A Cup of Poison, pp8-9. 
  • “Crying the Neck”: A Cornish Harvest Tradition, including 1st verse & music The Barley Mow by Lamorna Spry, pp10-11
  • The Unquiet Grave, or Cold Blows the Wind, sung by (1) Mrs Smitherd; (2) Mrs Timms by Veronica Lowe, pp12-13 
  • The Holly Bears a Beating ~ an elaborate hoax or did it really happen?  By Rosie Upton, p14 
  • Mari Lwyd - Christmas & New Year, by Mick Tems, p15
Folklife news: societies & organisations, researchers, publications
  • Pedlars Pack.  Kennedy Grant Memorial Library (Halsway Manor) p7.    ●  Trac Cymru. p13.    
  • EFDSS & Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, including Folk Education Development Day.  Traditional Song Forum: Zoom talk, Broadside Day, Spring Conference.  Access Folk.  p16. 
  • Melvyn Robinson Exhibition, Cecil Sharp House, London.  Folklore Society.  p17.         
  • Books: Coalfields of Song and Verse – North East Mining in the 20th Century; Songs Of The Shire – A Celebration of Herefordshire.  Ballad Partners, incl. book launch and talk, Maud Karpeles and Newfoundland Folk Song.  Saydisc: Roots of the Blues.  p18 
  • The Mick Tems Archive.   Folk Legacy Books.   Cornish National Music Archive.  In The Roud.  p19.   
Seasonal Local Celebrations, November to February, list & photos, mostly by Doc Rowe, p20
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​2027 Mar - FTJ 82

Deadline 1 February 2027

​2027 Jul - FTJ 83

Deadline 1 June 2027

​2027 Nov - FTJ 84

Deadline 1 October 2027
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