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MacColl/Seeger, 1846-2009 (bulk 1930-1995) (continued)
Organizations, 1931-1993 (continued)
Critics Group, 1965-1973 (continued)
Script (continued)
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
BOX-FOLDER 254/5 Peggy Seeger set lists, 1969-1989
BOX-FOLDER 201/3 Questionnaires, 1987 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 201/4 Reopening, 1990
BOX-FOLDER 201/5 "Singers Club News" and the "Lark," 1965-1980
BOX-FOLDER 264/2 Singers Club t-shirt, undated
BOX-FOLDER 248/9 Song Competition - National Health Service - files, 1988
BOX-FOLDER 270/4 Song Competition - National Health Service, 1988
Health for All badges
BOX 271 Song Competition - National Health Service, 1988
Banners - Nurses Care and Born in the NHS
BOX 202; 260; 263 Workers Theatre Movement, 1930-1950, 1964, 1988, 1993
Materials include articles, photographs, programs, and scripts.
Arranged alphabetically by file unit.
BOX-FOLDER 202/1 Agit-prop photographs, 1930s
Includes: Blondie?, Joe Davis, L. Hacket, Ewan MacColl, and Mark Phillips
BOX-FOLDER 202/2 Miscellaneous files, 1940, 1993, and undated
Includes: Typescript of "Working Class Theatre in Manchester, 1928-1934"
Periodicals
BOX-FOLDER 202/3 International Theatre, 1934
BOX-FOLDER 202/4; 263/10 Red Stage, 1931-1932
BOX-FOLDER 202/5 Workers Theatre Movement Monthly Bulletin, no. 3, 1930 February
BOX-FOLDER 202/6 Scripts - J. P. M., "Means Test Worker," 1933
Note: From Storm, vol.1, no. 2, 1933 April
BOX-FOLDER 202/7 Scripts - "Meerut," undated
Photocopy typescript
BOX 202 Theatre Workshop, 1945-1988 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 202/8 Miscellaneous, 1951, 1988 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 202/9 Photographs, 1945-1961
Includes: Howard Goorney, Joan Littlewood, Ewan MacColl, Jean Newlove, and other Theatre Workshop members
Productions
BOX-FOLDER 202/10 Johnny Noble and other titles, 1948 and undated
Includes programs for: The Flying Doctor, Love of Don Perlimplin for Belisa in His Garden, The Other Animals, and The Proposal
BOX-FOLDER 202/11 Lysistrada/Unternehmen Olzweig, 1956, 1962-1964, 1976 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 202/12; 260/5 Miscellaneous, 1951-1954, 1964, 1988, and undated
Includes programs for: Arden of Eversham, Cruel Daughter, The Flying Doctor, Good Soldier Schweik, The Imaginary Invalid, Johnny Noble, Long Voyage Home, Love of Don Perlimplin for Belisa in His Garden, Lysistrada, The Other Animals, The Proposal, and Uranium 235
BOX-FOLDER 202/13 Scottish Music and Drama - Edinburgh Festival number, undated
Contains: Article on the Theatre Workshop, comments from Ewan MacColl, and Joan Littlewood's review of a Katherine Dunham troupe performance
BOX-FOLDER 202/14 Volk und Kunst, 1950
Contains: William Davidson. "Volksumliches Theatre in England"
BOX 203-209, 253, 255-259, 261 MAPCASE FOLDER 10, 17 Recording Activity, 1974-2003
MacColl and Seeger released over a dozen records of their music both individually and as a duo on their Blackthorne label.

The Blackthorne Records sub-subseries minimally documents the recording process for fourteen releases. With the exception of Familiar Faces, which is well'documented, album material concerns the covers, including original artwork, rather than the recording activity itself although there are track lists and song drafts for several titles. The company’s business functions are documented through financial records related to international album distribution.

The Recording Activity subseries documents album creation, label management, and control of their song rights. A nearly complete photocopied set of album covers and their inserts provides a ready resource to the MacColl/Seeger output. The Discographies sub-subseries documents MacColl and Seegercompositions, song usage, rights, and permissions.

Materials consist of album cover artwork and inserts; catalogs and flyers; correspondence; copyright filings; discographies; financial documents including account books, balance sheets, bank records, invoices, receipts, and VAT account books; meeting minutes; record label catalogs, recording track lists; and song drafts.
Arranged into two sub-subseries: Blackthorne Records and Recording and Rights Management and then alphabetically therein.
BOX 203-208, 261 MAPCASE FOLDER 17 Blackthorne Records, 1976-1990

Materials consist of album cover artwork and inserts; catalogs and flyers; correspondence; copyright filings; financial documents including account books, balance sheets, bank records, invoices, receipts, and VAT account books; meeting minutes; and record label catalogs; and song drafts.
Arranged alphabetically by author or title.
BOX-FOLDER 203/1 Advertising, 1978-1988
BOX-FOLDER 203/2 Artwork, various, undated
BOX-FOLDER 203/3 Cadillac Music, 1986-1987
BOX-FOLDER 203/4 Catalogues and flyers, undated
BOX-FOLDER 203/5 Certificate for registration for VAT, 1976-1983
BOX-FOLDER 203/6 Complementary record distribution list, undated
BOX-FOLDER 203/7 Copyright documentation, 1977
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