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The article offers information on the Folk Song Subject Index from the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.

The article focuses on the Locating Women in the Folk conference, held at the University of Sussex in June 2018.

The article discusses the development of the James Madison Carpenter Collection Project by the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML). It highlights the efforts of the VWML to bring the Carpenter collection into an online digital archive. It also notes that the online digital archive provides access to the researchers, performers, genealogists and other interested parties in search of the collections of traditional instrumental music, dance, custom and children's folklore.

The article offers news briefs related to Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, London. It talks about Locating Women in 'The Folk' conference will be held at the University of Sussex in Falmer. A Folk Song Conference at the Cecil Sharp House from November 10-11, 2018. The article also discusses about grants offered by Malcolm Taylor to support good practice in the development and maintenance of folk collections.

The article reviews the broadside collections exhibition held at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML) at Cecil Sharp House and Chetham's Library in Manchester from March 12-29, 2018.

The article provides information on Vaughan Williams Memorial Library including national identity and knowledge sharing,

The article reviews the architecture of Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.

Information about The Histories of Morris In Britain conference held in March 2017 in England. Topics discussed include study of the neglected Carnival Morris, various forms of community entertainment in the 18 century, and the correlation in the popularity of bell ringing against the decline of morris dance. Scholars who presented their papers at the event include John Forrest, Michael Heaney, and Lucy Wright.

The article offers information on the conference "Pastoralism and modernity in the southern mountains: a centenary symposium on Cecil Sharp's 1916 Appalachian journey" of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) to be held at the Shepherd University in West Virginia on July 16, 2016.

The article reports that The Full English, a national digitisation and education programme of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), has acquired manuscripts of collectors Mary Neal and Daisy Daking which focuses on folk dance revival. It states that the collections are included on the collections of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML) in England. It mentions the life and career of social worker and philanthropist Neal and dance teacher Daking.