Marie Slocombe, 1912-1995

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Marie Slocombe helped the BBC to amass one of the finest collections of folk music in the world. Those interested in traditional British and Irish culture owe a great debt to Slocombe who in effect become the BBC's sound archivist in 1941 and created a national sound archive and helped direct the Folk Music and Dialect Recording Scheme in 1951.

Officials and employees, British Broadcasting Corp., Slocombe, Marie

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Alan Bruford, 1937-1995

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Alan Bruford, the senior archivist at the University of Edinburgh's School of Scottish Studies, died May 1995 at the age of 58. He was the editor of Tocher, a periodical in which hundreds of songs were published. His knowledge of Irish Gaelic folklore, Scottish Gaelic and Scots was recorded in more than a half-dozen books he authored.

Biography, Bruford, Alan

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Hamish Scott Henderson (1919-2002)

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Hamish Scott Henderson is described as the father of the Scottish Folk-song Revival movement. His ordinariness was extraordinary and his humility was a lesson for all.

Obituary, Poets, Henderson, Hamish Scott

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