Last year, as I looked at my diary and put in all the exciting craft events and exhibitions to see throughout 2019, I wrote a blog featuring my top exhibitions across the UK and abroad. It’s the same time of year and I now realise it must be an annual ritual because I find myself putting the ‘do not miss’ events into my diary for 2020.
Remembrance Day & The Feathered Aviator
Craft Conversations with Matt Rowe & Laura Mansfield
Have you been to the fields? A personal top 10 of John Barleycorn and related songs
There is a vast amount of history behind the folk song John Barleycorn; written sources can be traced back to the 1500s, and its genealogy goes back further. But that, as they say, is another story and if you do want that story, I suggest you read Pete Wood’s 2009 essay John Barleycorn revisited: Evolution and Folk Song ).