Review of 'Tradition Today'. No 1, April 2011. Sheffield: The Centre for English Traditional Heritage. 71 pp.

Abstract

This new e-journal in English for folklorists comes from Sheffield, and is to be seen as a new venture for Emeritus Professor John D.A.W. Widdowson, long time head of the Centre for English Tradition and Language within the University of Sheffield. [Another article in this volume of 'Australian Folklore' discusses this Centre's uneven history and sad and severe curtailment in recent years.] In addition to the succinct editorial, there are a range of articles... Clearly we are dealing here with a fine new contribution to the discipline and the folklore field, with a nice mix of the ingredients that one would expect from the unduly modest leader of regional folkloric work in England in the last forty years and more. We applaud the initiative and the dignity of a new journal which bids fair to maintain the standards so long associated with its editor, his links with Newfoundland, and his many links with the English-speaking countries where his pupils and friends have done so much for the recording of the true folk voice of the regions of the British Isles, and of England especially.