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Papers, Talks and Reports

These are those papers, talks and reports, published and unpublished, which are available online, most of them on this site. Click on the title.

These form a subset of the full corpus of papers and talks, published and unpublished, a list of which is in "Have Self Will Travel: Curriculum Vitae".

 

Title
1985: "Folk Memory in a North Cotswold Community: A report to the Folklore Society"
1985: “Campden vs. Ashbee”, a talk recorded in the Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, Town Hall on 19 September 1985
1986: "Review: The Early Plays of Robin Hood. By David Wiles (1981)", FOLKLORE 97:1 (1986), pp. 114-115
1986/1997: "Editor's Note to the Second Edition" and "Introduction" to H.T. Osborn, A Child in Arcadia: The Chipping Campden Boyhood of H. T. Osborn 1902-1907
1988: "Cecil Sharp in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire", FOLK SONG RESEARCH 6:3 (1988), pp. 58-61
1988: "Review: German Volkskunde: A Decade of Theoretical Confrontation, Debate and Reorientation (1967-1977), edited and translated by James R. Dow and Hannjost Lixfield"
1988: Maypole Dance in the Twentieth Century: Further Studies of a North Cotswold Town
1988: "Folk Memory in a North Cotswold Community", TALKING FOLKLORE 1:4 (1988), pp. 22-38
1989: “Notes and Comments: Mummers and Momoeri: A Response”, Folklore, 100:2 (1989), pp. 240-247
1989: "English Dialect Survey", recorded interview, BBC Radio Cumbria, 12 December 1989
1990: "'That’s A-Buggered It': the BBC and local culture, c. 1930-c.1960″, recorded Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Lecture, Cecil Sharp House, London, 20 April 1990
1990: “Shut Thee B—- Mouth”, a talk recorded in the Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, Town Hall, on 15 February 1990
1990: "Reflections of a Folklorist in a Residential Therapeutic Community for Emotionally Deprived and Disturbed Children", MALADJUSTMENT AND THERAPEUTIC EDUCATION 8:2 (Summer 1990), pp. 68-73
1991: “Notes and Comments: The Greek Mummers: A Challenge”, Folklore,102:1, pp. 108-110
1991: "The Historiography of Dialectology", LORE AND LANGUAGE 10:2 (1991), pp. 67-74
1994: "Editor's Introduction", to F.W. Coldicott, "Memories of an Old Campdonian"
1996: "Appreciation [Marie Slocombe, 1912-1995]" FOLK MUSIC JOURNAL (1996), pp. 272-273
1997: "'CELEBRATING MEMORY: An oral history of the Society of Archivists and its members'. A Chronology of the Society of Archivists"
1997: "'CELEBRATING MEMORY: An oral history of the Society of Archivists and its members.' Handbook"
1997: Comment: Denis Carroll and the Second Northfield Experiment.
1997: "From the archives [#1]", Therapeutic Communities 18:4 (1997), pp. 310-311
1998: From the Archive [#2], Therapeutic Communities 19:1 (1998), pp. 65-66
1998: Book Review, "German Volkskunde: A Decade of Theoretical Confrontation, Debate and Reorientation (1967-1977)", Folklore 99:2, pp. 263-264
1998: '"No foundation all the way down the line": History, memory and 'milieu therapy' from the view of a specialist archive in Britain', THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES 19:2 (1998), pp. 167-178
1998: "From the Archives 3", THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES 19:3 (1998)
1998: "Celebrating Memory: An Oral History of the Society of Archivists and its Members. An Illustrated Report." Unpublished paper presented at "Past, present and future", the Society of Archivists Annual Conference 8-11 September 1998
1998: Untitled, unpublished presentation ["Arguing for oral history as part of the archivist's everyday toolkit"], Society of Archivists Scottish Regional Meeting, 23 May 1998
1999: "Archivists and Oral History: Engaging the Community". Unpublished handout for Society of Archivists Training Day, 27 April 1999
1999: Obituary: "Dr. Josephine Mary Lomax-Simpson – ‘Doc’ 
(11 March 1925 – 25 May 1999): Founder of Messenger House Trust therapeutic communities (1970-1987) and of Hutchinson Settlement for students (1977-1987)", THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES 20:3 (1999), pp.
1999: "THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND: a specialist archive and study centre for 'alternative' therapeutic and educational communities." Unpublished paper delivered at the Oral History Society Annual Conference 15 May, 1999
2000: "Disasters, Major and Minor", Society of Archivist's FILM AND SOUND GROUP NEWS 13 (2000), pp. 3-5
2001: "Classic Turns 30", JOINT NEWSLETTER 3 (2001), p. 3 [Maurice Bridgeland's "Pioneer Work With Maladjusted Children"]
2002: "Meditation on Methodology", Oral History Society Regional Network annual meeting, 28.9.2002
2002: "Oral History, Adding Value, and Archives", the Society of Archivists FILM AND SOUND GROUP NEWS 16 (June 2002), pp. 8-10
2003: "Introduction" [to two papers by Richard Crocket], THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES 24:3 (2003), pp. 227-231
2003: "Wellcome Witness Seminar: February 18, 2003 'Beyond the asylum: anti-psychiatry and care in the community'", JOINT NEWSLETTER 7 (2003), p. 16.
2002: "Archivists/Director's Report", JOINT NEWSLETTER 5 (2002), pp. 23-27
2003: "a pause in the day's occupation", Joint Newsletter 7, March 2003, p. 54
2003: "DR. HARRY WILMER interviewed by Craig Fees in London 7th September, 1999 [(T)CF296]", JOINT NEWSLETTER 7 (2003), p. 56
2003: "Harry Wilmer and "PEOPLE NEED PEOPLE", ABC Television Network, October 11, 1961", JOINT NEWSLETTER 7 (2003), p. 55
2003: "Preface to: Unpublished classics: 'Children's Hostels' by Arthur T. Barron (1943)", THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES 22:4 (2003), pp. 292-295
2003: "The Archivist Speaks", JOINT NEWSLETTER 8 (2003), p. 38
2003: "Digging the Past, Seeding the Future", Paper proposal for Windsor 2003 [not presented]
2003: "An Engaged Archive and Study Centre". Unpublished article, originally written for the Society of Archivists' SPECIALIST REPOSITORY GROUP NEWSLETTER
2004: 'What is the purpose of the Archive and Study Centre?' From: “The Archive and Study Centre and the Business Plan. Where do we want to be in twenty years’ time?” a paper presented to the Trustees of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust, 28 April 200
2004: The Joint Newsletter [prepared for a joint presentation proposed for the 2004 Windsor Conference]
2004: "What is an archive for?" JOINT NEWSLETTER 10 (2004), p. 48
2004: review of Face to Face with Children: The Life and Work of Clare Winnicott, Edited by Joel Kanter with Forewords by Jeremy Holmes and Brett Kahr, Karnac Books (London, New York) 2004, £25
2004: "Hello, I must be going" [Valedictory Editorial], JOINT NEWSLETTER 12 (2004), pp. 2-4.
2005: "Insight into an archive specialising in records devoted to work with disturbed, delinquent and distressing people", ARC (the newsletter of the Society of Archivists) 196 (December 2005), pp. 4-5
2006: "RadioTC International", ORAL HISTORY 34:2 (2006), pp. 18-20
2008: "How do we know who cared? and what they cared for?" A life story approach to archives...and a celebration of the people who saved them"...
2008: "Lost Bridges and Residential Therapeutic Child Care:Howard Jones (1918 –2007) and Reluctant Rebels", published online in the Therapeutic Care Journal 1 May 2008.
2009: "A Fearless Frankness: The professional formation of psychiatrist Donald Winnicott, and a crucial lost episode in the history of therapeutic residential child care", presented 2009, published online in the Therapeutic Care Journal, 2010
2009: "Introduction: The IHWTE Publication Series", in Tony Rees, “An Obscure Philanthropist”: Frank Mathews 1871-1948, Castle View Books, Leominster (2009), pp. 241-243
2013: Getting it Right; Getting it Wrong: Archives, Internet, Oral History, and Accessibility in the 'Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children' project. Prepared for Reclaiming Lost Childhoods – Seminar 3, University of Strathclyde
2014: 'No Foundation All the Way Down the Line' Revisited: Analysis and reflections on 30 years of working with and building community processes through oral history" Unpublished presentation, Oral History Society Annual Conference, 19 July 2014
2014: "'Archive problems are fun problems': Building an Archive Service Around Traumatic Experience: Continuity, change, and thoughts towards the future". Unpublished presentation, Archives and Records Association Annual Conference, 27-29 August 2014
2016: "Background, evolution and issues in an online oral history course". Unpublished first version of a presentation for the Oral History Society's Annual Conference
2016: "Background, evolution and issues in an online oral history course". Unpublished, presented version of a paper for the Oral History Society's Annual Conference
2016: "Creating places of belonging: Reflections on 'Therapeutic living with other people's children' - a transformational experience". Unpublished presentation at the Archives and Records Association Annual Conference, 2 September 2016
2018: "In the Archive and Study Centre", PETT eNewsletter 37, December 11, 2018. THANKYOU!
2019: "Current British Work: Gloucestershire: Planned Environment Therapy Trust", ORAL HISTORY 47:1 (2019), pp. 13-15
2021: “The Audacity of Social Justice and Social Change”, a Prequel to "REVIEW ESSAY: Archives and museums: social change and social justice", ORAL HISTORY 50:1 (2022), pp. 127-135, with an introduction and brief history
2022: "REVIEW ESSAY: Archives and museums: social change and social justice", ORAL HISTORY 50:1 (2022), pp. 127-135.
2022: Notes [as a preface] to Pat Mitchell, "Mother and Daughter: An account of triumph and tragedy"
2023: "A brief (rough) history of the Caldecott / Community / Association website", Caldecott Association Newsletter, March 2023

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2021: "Knitting Knitting Litter Picking: Building relationships with the environment and our selves through oral history"

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