Welsh Ballads Digitisation Seminar
Welsh Ballads Digitisation Project
Open seminar for academics, students and the public
Monday, 14 September, 10am – 4pm
Cardiff University, Arts and Social Studies Library, Colum Drive
10.00 am – Welcome and Introduction by Session Chair: Mr Peter Keelan (Cardiff)
10.15 – Prof. Peredur Lynch (Bangor): Welsh Ballads Context: Welsh Militia Ballads
and the Growth of British Patriotism
10.45 – Dr A Cynfael Lake (Swansea): 18th Century Printed Ballads
11.15 – Dr E. Wyn James (Cardiff): Glamorgan Ballads
11.45 – Questions / Discussion
12.15 pm Lunch (buffet lunch provided)
1.15 – Ballads Projects: Session Chair: Prof. Andrew Prescott (Lampeter)
1.20 - Dr Giles Bergel (Oxford): The English Broadside Ballad Archive and the
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads Database
1.50 – Lyn Lewis Dafis (National Library of Wales): Digitising Welsh Ballads
2.20 – Peter Keelan (Cardiff ): Scottish Digitised Ballads: A Demonstration
2.50 – Questions / Discussion
3.00 – Coffee
3.20 – Digitising Ballads: Roundtable Summary and Where Next?
4.00 pm - Close