Yorkshire has been noted as a ‘singing’ county and this has been reflected in the excellent musical collections published by Frank Kidson. The post war song collections, however, have not been so well represented.

In this new book Steve Gardham has selected over a hundred folk songs, some previously published and others from out-of-print and scarce collections. The main sources are the collections of Mary and Nigel Hudleston, Steve Gardham and Ruairidh Greig.

Musical notation has been provided by Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne and comprehensive notes have been supplied by Steve Gardham and Nick Dow.