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    Images from Lucy Wright's Folk Fatales series

    Artist Lucy Wright on folk art, overlooked traditions, and the Folk is a Feminist Issue manifesta

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    This Ain’t No Disco: A visual exploration of contemporary traditional Irish music

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    The Broadside Hack: coming soon to a screen near you

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    Blackthorn Ritualistic Folk: The Interview

    Men chase a cheese down the extremely steep Cooper's Hill in the 2015 Gloucester Cheese Rolling contest

    Customs uncovered: the Cooper’s Hill cheese rolling contest

    Bampton Morris dancing on the streets of Oxfordshire for Whit Monday

    Customs uncovered: Bampton Morris dancing, Whit Monday

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    Handbags and Broomsticks: Molly Dancing for the uninitiated

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    In this photo by Judith Burrows, Pecsaetan Morris dance with hankies in a sunny yard

    Hoyden Morris: a brief history of women’s Morris dancing

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    The Old Songs Podcast returns, supported by the English Folk Dance & Song Society

    Nick Hart holds a cup of tea in front of a garage door as he prepares to discuss Lucy Wan on the Old Songs Podcast

    The Old Songs Podcast: Se2Ep1 – ‘Lucy Wan’, ft. Nick Hart

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    The Old Songs Podcast – A full list of episodes

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    Handbags and Broomsticks: Molly Dancing for the uninitiated

    A woggle hopping obstacle in the wild. The picture is actually of a red postbox in Wiltshire on a pretty summer's day, but woggle hopping often involved postboxes

    Customs uncovered: Woggle Hopping

    The source singer Cecilia Costello - photo by Bob Etheridge

    Women in folk: celebrating the source singers

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