This episode will be about singers in England through the ages who I’ve come across in research for On This Day in Somerset; some are in the book and some are exclusive to this podcast.

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To find out more about my books, head over to Linktree, specifically linktr.ee/helenpugh. There are books for kids and adults, books in Spanish and in English. The books include On This Day in Somerset, Unsung Women in Somerset, Jungle-tastic Tales and Inca-tastic Tales. And finally thanks for listening.

Sources: English Folk Music on the Margin– Cecil Sharp’s Gypsies by Yvette Staelens, cecilsharpspeople.org.uk, archives.vwml.org, efdss.org, Gypsy & Traveller Voices by Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, freecen.org.uk, marriage records, 1881, 1901 & 1911 censuses, Double Stars: the Story of Caroline Herschel by Padma Venkatraman, Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel, mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk, oxforddnb.com, batharchives.co.uk/georgian-newspaper -project, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke edited by Robert Rehder.