BROADSIDE DAY Saturday 20th February 2021 - Call for Papers
For more than ten years, the BROADSIDE DAY, organised jointly by the Traditional Song Forum and the English Folk Dance and Song Society, has been the gathering place for people interested in street literature and cheap print - broadsides, chapbooks, prints, tracts, penny histories, woodcuts, and so on. Our meetings have been held in London, Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge, Sheffield, and Glasgow, and next year’s was to be in Birmingham, but it seems clear that physical meetings will be impossible for some time to come. So in 2021 we will be online. The exact details have yet to be finalised, but the date is fixed. The upside of the situation, of course, is that we can expect papers from people who can’t normally travel to the UK, so we hope for an exceptionally good line-up this year.
We would therefore be pleased to receive submissions for 20-minute papers on any aspect of cheap print and street literature. Closing date 1st December 2020.
Most of our papers are concerned with Britain and Ireland, or English-language traditions elsewhere, but we always have one or two from further afield, so we would welcome suggestions from other places.
Contact: Steve Roud
Contributors might like to know that some previous Broadside Day papers have been published by the Ballad Partners and a second volume is imminent).