An important part of TSF's work to make hard to find material available for present-day scholars.  We have long had ambitions to publish key texts that are now hard to find and have agreed to use the TSF website as the means to do this.  It is intended that a number of texts will appear in this section in the coming year and the first of these are now available.  We present these in the belief that they are out of copyright as well as having been out of print for many years.  

Key Texts

Jan 2006

At our meeting in November 2002  our 'Forum Focus' session was on the use of the Internet in researching folk song.  As a result of this discussion we produced a list of useful sites.  This list has been checked and updated in August 2010. Please advise me (Martin Graebe) of any broken links - or, indeed, of any interesting sites that you think should be added.

Song Resources on the Web

Aug 2010

Steve Roud has provided a couple of useful collections of information for researchers

Song Indexes

Discussion lists and ways to ask questions

An alphabetical index of the Child Ballads produced by Martin Graebe because the indexes most readily available are by Ballad Number

  Index of Child Ballads

David Herron contributed a nice bibliography of song books (mostly traditional) currently in print.
A good starting point for the beginner in folk song.

David Herron's Chapbook

  May 2005

The site contains a number of articles provided by members on a range of topics.  I have gathered them together on a separate page

 Articles

  May 2005 

We have ambitions to create a small collection of songs on the site.  The number available at present remains small  -  but we remain hopeful.

Songs