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Background notes on the Journal's evolution. Scroll down to Archive links starting with FWJ 01.

[1] FWJ - Folkife West Journal. Originally published separately to our Folk West, later Folklife West, FW magazine. This magazine, published by Folklife, was intended to continue the work of the former ‘Somers Journal’ published by the Somers Folk Club.
It started as “Worcestershire Folklife: the Folklife West Journal, Nº. 1” in Sep. 2006, a special issue for Worcestershire, assisted by a Awards for All grant (covering 1 issue only). The contents included both ‘folklife’ and ‘folk club’ material.
It was then published irregularly (due to lack of time and money) and over time, contents gradually became more focused on ‘folklife’, with ‘folk club’ elements (eg folk CDs) being transferred to our Folk West magazine.

Notes: FWJ 01, Sept 2006 ”Worcestershire Folklife: the Folklife West Journal”
FWJ 06a, Oct 2011, “Folklife Diary”, in Folklife West 31, Oct 2011
FWJ 07a, Apr 2012, “Folklife Diary”, in Folklife West 33, Apr 2012
FWJ 08, Jul 2012 (the last FWJ)

[2] FT - Folklife Traditions. We wanted preferred to have a regularly-published Journal, but no time & resources. Then I retired ! ----- new computer & software, so Oct. 2012 created the combined FQ - Folklife Quarterly magazine [from Oct. 2018, FQ renamed as FW - Folklife West magazine, as 3 x year from Jan. 2019]

FWJ was then renamed Folklife Traditions - FT, with the FT pages being published as part of the new combined FQ magazine.

Started with FT 09 in Folklife Quarterly 35, Oct 2012
FT numbers then changed to correspond with FQ, so next was FT 36, etc.

[3] Folklife Traditions Journal. May 2021: a new international audience with Zoom's arrival, easier to explain FT to a new international audience by adding Journal to the title (as this suggests articles rather than folk acts etc) - our email Newsletter (see foot of page) now circulates to the US, Australia, etc.

From FTJ 72, Jan 2023, FTJ started publishing separately as well as being part of Folklife West.
From FTJ 74, Nov 2023, FTJ was established as a separate magazine, not part of Folklife West. With a different publishing schedule to FW, numbers will diverge.

Originally published separately to our Folk West, later Folklife West, FW magazine. This magazine, published by Folklife, was intended to continue the work of the former ‘Somers Journal’ published by the Somers Folk Club.
It started as “Worcestershire Folklife: the Folklife West Journal, Nº. 1” in Sep. 2006, a special issue for Worcestershire, assisted by a Awards for All grant (covering 1 issue only). The contents included both ‘folklife’ and ‘folk club’ material.
It was then published irregularly (due to lack of time and money) and over time, contents gradually became more focused on ‘folklife’, with ‘folk club’ elements (eg folk CDs) being transferred to our Folk West magazine.

Notes: FWJ 01, Sept 2006 ”Worcestershire Folklife: the Folklife West Journal”
FWJ 06a, Oct 2011, “Folklife Diary”, in Folklife West 31, Oct 2011
FWJ 07a, Apr 2012, “Folklife Diary”, in Folklife West 33, Apr 2012
FWJ 08, Jul 2012 (the last FWJ)

[2] FT - Folklife Traditions. We wanted preferred to have a regularly-published Journal, but no time & resources. Then I retired ! ----- new computer & software, so Oct. 2012 created the combined FQ - Folklife Quarterly magazine [from Oct. 2018, FQ renamed as FW - Folklife West magazine, as 3 x year from Jan. 2019]

FWJ was then renamed Folklife Traditions - FT, with the FT pages being published as part of the new combined FQ magazine.

Started with FT 09 in Folklife Quarterly 35, Oct 2012
FT numbers then changed to correspond with FQ, so next was FT 36, etc.

[3] Folklife Traditions Journal. May 2021: a new international audience with Zoom's arrival, easier to explain FT to a new international audience by adding Journal to the title (as this suggests articles rather than folk acts etc) - our email Newsletter (see foot of page) now circulates to the US, Australia, etc.

From FTJ 72, Jan 2023, FTJ started publishing separately as well as being part of Folklife West.
From FTJ 74, Nov 2023, FTJ was established as a separate magazine, not part of Folklife West. With a different publishing schedule to FW, numbers will diverge.