FWJ: Folklife West Journal 01-08  :   2006 Sep - FWJ 01 to 2012 Jul - FWJ 08

FWJ: Folklife West  Journal is on https://folklife.uk/fwj-01-08 
Taken from old site, which became difficult to edit. So some duplicated text (before details of individual issues, starting with FTJ 01) -- will be revised/shortened later.
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 [old site] "Index: FTJ articles" https://www.folklife-traditions.uk/index-articles.html, for past articles.

​CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME for appropriate articles; contact us first, please. See "Contact & Contribute" webpage[on old site] https://www.folklife-traditions.uk/contact-contribute.html 
• 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
Relevant books announced (exceptionally CDs eg traditional singers) - up to 200 words, more if advert, or at editor’s discretion
Songs & tunes collected
Seasonal Local Celebrations, based on Doc Rowe’s listings, additions welcome
Conferences & Talks

​Subscriptions, Adverts, and Donations - please see foot of page
Downloadable A4-size pdfs for all issues. Some articles originally-print only, these articles are being gradually added.
Earlier issues also as "Issuu" e-magazines; may omit some originally-print only articles (still available but we can't update).
PDFs; plus e-magazines on e-magazine site, https://issuu.com/traditions-uk where you will find a list of issues - this page all available as e-magazines to read online.
FWJ - Folklife West Journal - was published separately and irregularly (due to work demands) , then as regularly as pages within Folklife magazine.

To read FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS PAGES.
In print
is best, as it is a print publication.
You can support us by subscribing, details foot of page or contact sam@folklife.uk

Online; you can access FT online, free, by downloading PDFs.
For earlier issues, we did also have e-magazines but we're now having problems with that format ***. So we added PDFs for earlier issues as well.
Additionally, for the current issue only, copies of the print pages are shown on ​"This issue online" webpage.
ALL ISSUES can now be downloaded as PDFs.ALSO as E-MAGAZINES for EARLIER FTs, up to and including JANUARY 2018, FT 56

*** Issuu is an e-magazine format, which we relied on for years, till it suddenly wouldn't work when I tried to add to it... Still works for you reading FT 56 and earlier; you can't download from that site, only from this page as PDFs. So, if you go to our e-magazine site, https://issuu.com/traditions-uk, you will find a list of issues up to January 2018, FT 56 - all available as e-magazines to read online. We can't update that site.  

Note on print vs online availability of articles and copyright pictures - Articles by Dave Jones and Charles Menteith are not available on Issuu.
Articles by Charles Menteith are being added to downloadable PDFs on this site. This is an ongoing process and not complete due to the problems of older magazines using Apple fonts that have been discontinued & converting to modern fonts before saving as PDFs. For individual articles, contact us, we may have a Pdf of article that we can send even if not on PDF below.
Articles by Dave Jones. Taken from his book The Roots of Welsh Border Morris, £5 by post from Annie Jones, see adverts in FT or contact us for Annie's details.
Additionally sometimes we have copyright restrictions eg in one case high-resolution permission granted for print but low-resolution for web . . .
Overview: FWJ 2006-2012; FT 2012 to 2021; FTJ 2021 to date. Lists, & links, for each issue

[1] Folklife West JournalFWJ 2006 Sep to 2012 Jul
[2006] FWJ 01, Sept 2006 ”Worcestershire Folklife: the Folklife West Journal”
[2008] FWJ 02, Dec 2008
[2009] FWJ 03, Jun 2009 • FWJ 04, Dec 2009
[2010] FWJ 05, Aug 2010
[2010] FWJ 06, Apr 2011
[2011] FWJ 06a, Oct 2011, “Folklife Diary”, in Folklife West 31, Oct 2011
[2012] FWJ 07, Jan 2012 • FWJ 07a, Apr 2012, “Folklife Diary”, in Folklife West 33, Apr 2012 • FWJ 08, Jul 2012
FWJ 08 was the last one titled FWJ.

​Background notes from Editor, Sam Simmons: ​ [1] ​FWJ - Folkife West Journal.
Originally published separately to our Folk West, later Folklife West, FW magazine.
     This magazine, published by Folklife, was intended to continue the work of the former ‘Somers Journal’ published by the Somers Folk Club.
      It started as “Worcestershire Folklife: the Folklife West Journal, Nº. 1” in Sep. 2006, a special issue for Worcestershire, assisted by an Awards for All grant (covering 1 issue only). The contents included both ‘folklife’ and ‘folk club’ material.
     It was then published irregularly (due to lack of time and money) and over time, contents gradually became more focused on ‘folklife’, with ‘folk club’ elements (such as folk CDs) being transferred to our Folk West magazine.
FWJ 01 was a special Worcestershire issue, assisted by an Awards for All grant, distributed free to Worcs local community groups, venues, clubs, Tourist Offices, libraries. Usual contents, + 'folk club' material normally in our "Folk West" magazine

2006 Sep - FWJ 01

20 A4 pages (incl. colour photos)

● ‘A Worcestershire Folk Club: Somers Traditional Folk Club' p3-4
● Dave Jones, Welsh Border Morris: ‘Introduction’ & ‘Evesham Morris Dances’ p5-7 (print-only)
● Charles Menteith, ‘Worcestershire Songs: “Bill The Weaver” & “Now on that hill …" p8-9 (print-only; to add later)
● Eric Payne “Mud, Dust and Noise”: Whitman’s Hill Quarry, p11
● Roy Palmer, Ballad Printers of Worcester, 1. John Butler’ p12-13
● Roy Palmer, ‘Cecil Sharp at Evesham’, p14-15
● Robert Wimbury ‘Worcs Memories: A Worcs Coronation Pageant’ p17

Societies:
● Worcs. Folklife’s Recording Facilities’ p17 ● ‘Holly & Mistletoe Auctions’ p18 ● ‘Worcs Chinese Association’ p18
Publications:
● ‘Romany Road’ magazine p18 ● ‘The Folklore of Worcestershire’ (Roy Palmer), reviewed Eds p2
Worcestershire Festivals, & Performers:
● Upton Folk Festival: photos by Colin Davies p.10 ● ‘Just Latin Salsa’ ‘Food & Folk’, ‘Dampiers Round’, ‘Appleyard Dancers’, p18-19 

Issuu:  e-magazine, see note above: http://issuu.com/traditions-uk/docs/fwj-01
From FWJ 2 , all issues have the following, not always listed in contents:       Talks, Conferences, Exhibitions, etc​ 
 ● ​Folklife listings: 1-line summaries for Folklife Organisations and for Folklife StudiesSeasonal Local Celebrations: a list with photos by Doc Rowe

2008 Dec - FWJ 02

24 A4 pp (mono)

● Charles Menteith, ‘The Withy Tree Carol’, a version from Evesham, p3 (print-only; to add later)
● Dave Jones, Welsh Border Morris: ‘The Village Teams’, p4-7 (print-only)
● Roy Palmer, “Not the Good Old Times”, George Swinford’s narrative of rural life p8-9
● Roy Palmer, Ballad Printers of Worcester, 2: Samuel Gamidge, p10-14, 24
● Geoff Davies, What is Folk? p16
● Christopher Ridley, Bodmin Folk Club: A Short History p17

Societies:
● Ron Shuttleworth's Collection: Morris Ring Folk Play Archive, p15
Publications:
● ‘Romany Road’ magazine, p18
Reviews
● Veteran CDs; Traveller’s Joy; The Folklore of Discworld; The Folklore of the Black Country p18-19

Issuu: e-magazine, see note above: http://issuu.com/traditions-uk/docs/fwj-02

2009 Jun - FWJ 03

24 A4 pp (mono)
● Charles Menteith, ‘Down At The Suicide Arms’, p3 print-only; to add later
● Dave Jones, Welsh Border Morris: 'The Brimfield Morris Dance', p4-6 print-only

● Roy Palmer, Ballad Printers of Worcester, 3: James & John Grundy, George & Thomas Lewis, Thomas Hayes, p7-11
● Bill Pullen, Winchcombe Mummers Play & Morris (Winchcombe Cavalcade, Eleanor Adlard, 1939) p12-13
Societies
● The Folklore Society, introduction, Dr Caroline Oates p14-15 ● EFDSS ‘Take 6’ Archive Website p16-18
​Publications
● Why Dance? review, Paul Burgess, p21 ● CD: Down Upon Old Dartymoor, p21

Issuu: e-magazine, see note above: http://issuu.com/traditions-uk/docs/fwj-03

2009 Dec - FWJ 04

24 A4 pp (mono)

● 24 A4 pp (mono)
● Charles Menteith, Two Songs to the Same Tune: ~ Willikins and his Dinah ~ The Back-to-front Song: p3
● Dave Jones, Welsh Border Morris: 'Bromsberrow Heath', p4-6
● Roy Palmer, Ballad Printers of Worcester, 4. Richard Houghton p7-9

Societies ●‘Vesta Tilley Society’ formed p10-12 ● Wren Music: Devon Tradition project, Baring-Gould Heritage Project p13-14 ● EFDSS: Arts Council funding p15 ● EFDSS: Cecil Sharp Diaries online p14

Publications ● The Fallibroome Collection, p16 ● Phonofossils CDs review by Cresby, p16

2 files as was maximum 10mb uploads to former site;  Part 1 pages 1-10; part 2 pages 11-20.
​(we may be able to make into 1 file for this site, later)
Issuu: e-magazine, see note above: http://issuu.com/traditions-uk/docs/fwj-04

2010 Aug - FWJ 05

 24 A4 pp (mono)

● Charles Menteith, ‘The Scarlet and the Blue’, p3
● Marilyn Tucker, ‘Shore To Shore’: 400 years of folk connections between SW England & Newfoundland, p4-7
● Dave Jones, Welsh Border Morris: Cradley Morris Dance: [play] p.8-11
● Grenville Sheringham, songs to Willikins and his Dinah tune: ‘Go Limp’ & ‘Threshing Machine’, p11
● Roy Palmer, Ballad Printers of Worcester, 5. H.F. Sefton, p12-18

Publications -- all p19 
● ‘Working Songs’, Roy Palmer ● ‘A Sweet Country Life’ [Sharp in Tewkesbury], Richard Sermon ● 'The Lore of the Playground’, Steve Roud ● online: Ballad printers of Birmingham: Roy Palmer

Issuu: e-magazine, see note above: http://issuu.com/traditions-uk/docs/fwj-05

2011 Apr - FWJ 06 

20 A4 pp (mono)
● Roy Palmer, Ballad Printers of Herefordshire, 1. Hereford, p6-9
● Charles Menteith, ‘Lilian’ (from Fred Pargeter), p10
● Bill Pullen, song to Willikins & his Dinah tune: ‘The Molecatcher’, p10
● Dave Jones, Welsh Border Morris: ‘The Dilwyn Stick Dance’, p12-13

Societies 
● Wren Music: Baring-Gould Folk Song Archive digitised & online, p3-5 ● The Folklore Society, An introduction by Dr Caroline Oates, p11 ● Wren: Newfoundland trad. music & song, inc. historical background, p14
Publications 
● online: Roud Folk Song and Broadside indexes updated, p16 ● online: ‘English folk and traditional music on the Internet’ moves, p16 ● Gloucestershire Folk Map leaflet, p16 ● ‘A Hampshire Collection’, p17 ● CDs trad. song, Glos & elsewhere, p17

Issuu: e-magazine, see note above: http://issuu.com/traditions-uk/docs/fwj-06
FW6a and FW7a were the FWJ Diary = no researched articles as preparation for 
  1. quarterly FWJ or FWJ Diary
   2. including FWJ within Folklife West  from 1/1/2012
Retired and bought a new computer, so from 1/1/2012:- FWJ available as part of the new  combined publication, Folklife West

2011 Oct - FWJ 06a  - 'FWJ diary'

4 A4 pp (mono), a Folklife Diary, in Folklife West magazine
● Researched Articles - none
Societies
● Vaughan Williams Memorial Library achieves MLA Designated status (EFDSS) p22
Publications
● Vic Gammon: A L Lloyd ballad collection out; Ashgate Book Sale; Vic Gammon Recordings p22
● Singing and Dancing Wherever She Goes: A Life of Maud Karpeles p22

Issuu: e-magazine, see note above: http://issuu.com/traditions-uk/docs/fwj-06a

2012 Jan - FWJ 07

16 A4 pp (mono)
● Charles Menteith ‘The Berkshire Tragedy’ (from Frank Leal), p2
● Roy Palmer Ballad Printers of Herefordshire, 2, Ledbury, p1, p3, p4-7
● Dave Jones, Welsh Border Morris’: ‘Much Wenlock Stick Dance’, p12-13 print only
Societies
● New Website of Gloucestershire Christmas Songs & Traditions, by Carol Davies, p 15
Publications
​● Book: Mike Raven, West Midlands Ballads, p 15

2 files as was maximum 10mb uploads to former site; Page 3 needed to be saved separately.  (we may be able to make into 1 file for this site, later).
Issuu: e-magazine, see note above: 
From FWJ 07a,   a 1-line Diary for Members’ short courses and workshops. Followed by news items for Members’ short courses and workshops. After that, we have news of talks and conferences.

2012 Apr - FWJ 07a. 'FWJ diary'


12 A4 pp (mono), a Folklife Diary, in Folklife West magazine
● Charles Menteith ‘The Butcher and The Parson’, p 12 (print-only; to add later)
Directory Updates, & 1-line Listings
● Folklife Studies, Organisations, Media, Services, pp 2-4
Folklife Diary
● conferences & talks, p11
NEW LISTINGS added (see note above) Workshops & Courses, pp 5, 7
Publications: CDs,
​p9 ● Sarah McQuaid: ‘The Plum Tree and The Rose' ● Steve Turner: ‘Rim of the Wheel' ● Mitch Reynolds: 'Thunder in the Wind'
Publications: reviews, p 9 ● CD, Pholk Law: Defend The Fire, review by Bill Pullen
Seasonal Local Celebrations, • list by Doc Rowe, pp10-11

Issuu: e-magazine, see note above: http://issuu.com/traditions-uk/docs/fwj-07a

2012 July - FWJ 08

20 A4 pages (mono)
● Ballad Printers of Herefordshire, Roy Palmer: 3. Leominster & Ross, p14-17
● Dave Jones, Welsh Border Morris: 'Much Wenlock Stick Dance' music (FWJ 07 cont'd) p18; ‘Pershore Morris’, p18-19 (print-only)
Societies & Institutions
● EFDSS; Katy Spicer, Chief Executive, p8-9 ● Gloucester Folk Museum; David Rice, Curator, p9
● trac (Music Traditions Wales); Blanche Rowe, p10 ● St Fagans National History Museum, p11
Diary & Listings
​● 1-line Listings, p2-3 ● Directory Updates, p7 ● Short courses, schools, workshops, p4-7 ● Conferences & talks, p7
Publications: Books, p11-12:
Jack Tar, ordinary seamen in Nelson’s navy, by Roy & Lesley Adkins● Bert … A L Lloyd, by Dave Arthur ● New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, ed Steve Roud & Julia Bishop.
Publications: reviews, p 13
​CD Steve Turner: ‘Rim of the Wheel’, review Bill Smith
Seasonal Local Celebrations
● A list with photos, by Doc Rowe, p20

Issuu: e-magazine, see note above: http://issuu.com/traditions-uk/docs/fwj-08
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