For more than 20 years the annual 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.
Broadside Day 2025
Saturday 22 Feburary
9:30am-5:00pm
VWML in partnership with the Traditional Song Forum
Broadside Day is the annual one-day conference for people interested in Street Literature and Cheap Print in all its fascinating aspects – broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, woodcuts, engravings, last dying speeches, catchpennies, news (real and fake), almanacs, carol sheets, wonder tales, and all kinds of cheap printed ephemera sold or distributed to ordinary people in the streets and at fairs, from pedlars’ packs, and in back-street shops, up and down the country. Organised jointly by the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and the Traditional Song Forum, the 2025 Broadside Day will be an in-person event at Cecil Sharp House.
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Call for Papers
Previous Broadside Day papers have been published by The Ballad Partners.
