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MacColl/Seeger, 1846-2009 (bulk 1930-1995) (continued)
Organizations, 1931-1993 (continued)
Organizations, 1931-1993 (continued)
Arranged in three sub-subseries: Critics Group, Singers Club, and Workers Theatre Movement.
BOX 194-198, 260 MAPCASE-FOLDER 18 Critics Group, 1965-1973

Materials consist of articles, cast and crew lists, music cue sheets, newsletters, notated music, photographs, posters, programs, rehearsal schedules, scripts, and stage layouts.
Arranged alphabetically by file unit.
BOX-FOLDER 194/1 "Critics Group and the British Folksong Revival," 1968
By Ewan MacColl
BOX-FOLDER 194/2 Dissolution papers, 1972
Festival of Fools
see also Photographs - Festival of Fools
1965
BOX-FOLDER 194/3 Charles Parker files
BOX-FOLDER 194/4 Notes on weather lore
BOX-FOLDER 194/5-6 Scripts
1967
BOX-FOLDER 194/7 Miscellaneous
Includes: Notes, programs, and rehearsal schedules
BOX-FOLDER 260/3 Photograph album
Includes: Leaflet and program
BOX-FOLDER 194/8 Script
Bound volume
Includes: List of units and participants, minutes, notes and corrections, and rehearsal schedules
BOX-FOLDER 194/9 Script - D. G. Smith's book
Annotated
BOX-FOLDER 194/10 Script - Peggy's book
Includes: Cue sheets, annotated script, and unit and participant lists
1968
BOX-FOLDER 260/4 Artwork
BOX-FOLDER 195/1 Miscellaneous
Includes: Stage layout, units, and tape cues
BOX-FOLDER 263/8 Music
Notated music
MAPCASE FOLDER 18 Photographs
Mounted on cardboard
BOX-FOLDER 195/2 Programs and songbook
BOX-FOLDER 195/3 Script
Bound
Note: Annotated
BOX-FOLDER 195/4-5 Scripts
BOX-FOLDER 195/6 1969
1970
BOX-FOLDER 195/7 Miscellaneous
Includes: Cast lists, newsletters, rehearsal schedule, and script replacement pages
BOX-FOLDER 266/9 Poster
BOX-FOLDER 195/8 Programs
BOX-FOLDER 195/9 Script
BOX-FOLDER 195/10 Script - Peggy's book
Note: Annotated
BOX-FOLDER 196/1 Script - Tony Rose's book
Bound
Includes: Cast and crew list, music cue sheet, newsletter, rehearsal schedules, stage layout, tech crew list, and units list
1971
BOX-FOLDER 196/2 Programs
BOX-FOLDER 196/3 Script
Bound
BOX-FOLDER 196/4 Script
BOX-FOLDER 196/5 Script - Peggy's book
Includes: Newsletters, rehearsal schedules, stage layout, and unit order and casting list
Note: Annotated
BOX-FOLDER 196/6 Script - Running order
BOX-FOLDER 196/7 Script - Unused texts
1973
BOX-FOLDER 196/8 Advertisement
BOX-FOLDER 196/9 MacColl Nonsense Stories, undated
Includes: Unidentified notated music and lyrics
Titles include:
  • "Jack and the Sandicoot"
  • "Borers of Sod Ufric"
  • "Story of the King Who Signed and the Polystonium Who Rubs"
  • "The Oyster Cycle"
BOX-FOLDER 196/10 MacColl Nonsense Stories - "Ulster Divided," undated
Includes: Ewan MacColl handwritten draft
BOX-FOLDER 263/7 McMillan, Ian. Now Spread Yourselves Out and Listen to the Music, undated
Includes: Hamish MacColl dance choreography
BOX-FOLDER 197/1-6 Performance photographs, 1972 and undated
Includes: Images of Bob Blair, John Faulkner, Sandra Kerr, Jim O'Connor, Brian Pearson, Mike Rosen, Buff Rosenthal, Peggy Seeger, Jack Warshaw, and Terry Yarnell
BOX-FOLDER 197/7 "Landmarks" conference, 1965 March 3
MacColl activities
BOX-FOLDER 197/8-10 Folk song course, reels 1-26, 1964
Transcripts
BOX-FOLDER 197/11 Lecture notes for classes, undated
BOX-FOLDER 197/12 "The Sound of Folk Music" course, undated
BOX-FOLDER 197/13 Radio plays - Romeo and Juliet, 1966
BOX-FOLDER 198/1 Radio plays - St. George and the Dragon, [1964-1966]
BOX-FOLDER 198/2 "Ready, Steady, Stop" - actuality, 1965
BOX-FOLDER 198/3 "Running a Class," 1969
BOX-FOLDER 198/4 Miscellaneous files, 1965-1972 and undated
Includes: Exercises and lessons, feature evenings, repertoire, and notated music for "To Make a Fisherman"
Includes: Photographs of Bob Campbell, John Faulkner, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and Denis Turner
BOX-FOLDER 249/13 "Money" project - drafts and notes, 1965-1970
Parker, Charles
BOX-FOLDER 198/5 Folk music series - "Recording techniques," 1964
BOX-FOLDER 198/6 Notes taken at business meeting of Critics Group, 1970 July
BOX-FOLDER 198/7 "Some Aspects of Traditional Song: Tradition and the Tape Recorder," 1965 June
Photographs
see Derbyshire - Critics Group
BOX-FOLDER 198/8 Reading list and bibliography, 1964, 1973
BOX-FOLDER 198/9 Research project on relationship between speech and song, 1966-1967
BOX-FOLDER 198/10 Research proposal on language of working class and middle class people, undated
BOX-FOLDER 198/11 Seeger, Peggy. "Principles of Folk Accompaniment," undated
BOX 252/4 to 253/1 Song cards - Unassociated, undated
MAPCASE FOLDER 15 St. George and the Dragon: A Modern Mumming Play, undated
Black and white photographs
BOX 199-201, 270-271 Singers Club, 1968-1992
Materials include booking confirmation sheets, correspondence; financial records, membership lists, minutes, photographs, posters, program lists, set lists, song sheets and broadsides, and a t-shirt.
Arranged alphabetically by file unit.
BOX-FOLDER 199/1 Correspondence, 1968-1992 and undated
Financial materials
BOX-FOLDER 199/2 Bar accounts, 1988-1989
BOX-FOLDER 199/3 Bills paid for, 1986-1992
BOX-FOLDER 199/4 Cashbooks, 1983-1991
BOX-FOLDER 199/5 Check stubs and deposit registers, 1983-1992
BOX-FOLDER 199/6 Financial statements, 1971-1989
Governance
BOX-FOLDER 199/7 to 200/1 Committee meeting minutes, 1968-1990
BOX-FOLDER 200/2 Constitution and rules, undated
BOX-FOLDER 200/3 Logos, undated
BOX-FOLDER 200/4 Membership, 1973, 1989-1990
BOX-FOLDER 200/5 Miscellaneous, 1988-1991 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 200/6 Photographs, 1968, 1989, and undated
see also Bull and Mouth; Singer's Club; Singers Club - Bull and Mouth
Black and white contact sheets, negatives, and prints
Includes: Martin Byrne, Ewan MacColl, Calum MacColl, Neill MacColl, and Peggy Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 200/7 Photographs - Closing night, 1991 December
Includes: Alistair Anderson, Kitty MacColl, Freddie MacKay, Kevin Mitchell, Irene Pyper-Scott, Peggy Seeger, and Terry Yarnell
BOX-FOLDER 266/10 Posters, undated
Programming Files
BOX-FOLDER 200/8 Booking confirmation slips - Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1971-1979
BOX-FOLDER 200/9 Broadsheets and songsheets, 1961-1962, 1975-1976, and 1989
BOX-FOLDER 200/10 Lists of songs sung by Ewan MacColl by type, 1971-1989
see also Set lists
BOX-FOLDER 200/11 Performers, 1972 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 200/12 to 201/1 Program books. 1-5, 1961-1991
BOX-FOLDER 201/2 Programs, 1964-1991
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