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Thread #78214   Message #1405541
Posted By: Gervase
11-Feb-05 - 04:18 AM
Thread Name: Folksingers who are research historians?
Subject: RE: Folksingers who are research historians?
Georgina Boyes, manager of Coope, Boyes and Simpson and who performs with Fi Fraser and Jo Freya, is a well-respected historian and writer and winner of the Katharine Briggs Folklore award - The Imagined Village, her work on the English folk song revival, is a 'must read' for anyone interested in the perception of 'English culture' and folklore in the first half of the 20th century.