Accessing the material
Accessing the material
The Full English is available to everyone for free at www.vwml.org. The search features allow you to search by first line, or collector, or title or Roud Number or place. You can also access the material physically with The Full English archive partners. Information about our partner archives can be found at:
Clare College, Cambridge
The Mitchell Library, Glasgow
The Folklore Society
The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre
The British Library
Are there other archives like The Full English?
The online availability of the Full English archive collections reflects trends in the consumption of information by contemporary society, utilising advances in technology to provide quick and easy access through key word searching. It also challenges the status quo of ‘the archive’ as a physical location with limited user access and reflects the changing attitudes towards user engagement in archival theory.
Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches
This website contains over 34,000 oral recordings made in Scotland and further afield, from the 1930s onwards. The items you can listen to include stories, songs, music, poetry and factual information.
Broadside Ballads Online
A digital collection of English printed ballad-sheets from between the 16th and 20th centuries, linked to other resources for the study of the English ballad tradition. This resource is maintained by the Bodleian Libraries and features the Bodleian's digital collections of ballads, with links to the English Broadside Ballad Archive’s digital presentations of pre-1800 ballads from other libraries, and to the folk song scholarship of the Roud Broadside Index, hosted by the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
Traditional Music in England
A broad range of field recordings of traditional music, including popular ballads, children's skipping songs, customs, music hall, soldiers' songs, folk tales and interviews.
The Folk Archive Resource North East
An online resource of songs, tunes, sound recordings and photographs from across the region.
