The Folk Archive
Folk from the past, folk from the present, folk for the future
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The Folk Review (opens the original)
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Hello!I’m pleased to announce that Issue 5 of my magazine The Folk Review has just opened for pre-orders (shipping end of September)It’s a pretty spectacular issue focused on Ancient and Modern customs.It features ceremonial grass cutting in Bournville, Polish harvest customs in Bexhill, the Obby Oss in Padstow, Beating the Bounds in Middlesborough, a Mr Blobby house in Bournemouth, a Wassail in Nova Scotia, and Cheese Rolling in Gloucestershire amongst MANY MANY other things!A4 size, 82 pages o
A pub shaped like a boot (opens the original)
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News from The Folk Archive (opens the original)
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Hello!A quick little update. I’ve just spent a wonderful week in Herefordshire rambling around old churches and bopping about bookshops in Hay. It was very restorative and I’ve many good things to write about - so more on that soon.I wanted to draw everyone’s attention to the fact there’s a NEW Folk Review! Its all about Morris and its available here.The brilliant cover was hand stitched by my mum Penny MacBeth<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href=
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