Further reading

This bibliography focuses on books, chapters and journal articles—for other material there are websites, specialist magazines like Festival Eye , and so on. Those entries marked * contain material specifically on the East Anglian Fairs. (I know, there's not much.) There are very brief annotated comments.

*Barnes, Richard. 1983. The Sun in the East : Norfolk & Suffolk Fairs . Kirstead, Norfolk: RB Photographic. The best book for photographs, graphics, some text.

* Bell, Sandra. 1975. Build Another Barsham : A Guide to Faire Making. Self-help booklet on how to organise a fair.

Blake, Andrew. 1997. The Land Without Music: Music, Culture and society in Twentieth Century Britain . Manchester: Manchester University Press. An academic study of Englishness as constructed through music, including festivals. Looks at both classical and pop music festival events.

Cameron, David Kerr. 1998. The English Fair . Stroud: Sutton Publishing. Historical trawl from early Saxon times on, from funfairs to seasonal gatherings. Includes chapter on horse fairs.

* Clarke, Michael. 1982. The Politics of Pop Festivals. London: Junction Books. The first academic study of the subject in Britain. Lots of detail about free festivals in particular, esp. Windsor, Deeply Vale. Touches in passing on 'medieval'-style fairs.

Cobbold, Chrissie Lytton. 1986. The Knebworth Rock Festivals . London: Omnibus. Large format photo-book, pop journalism.

Cohen, Abner. 1982. 'A polyethnic London carnival as a contested cultural performance'. Ethnic and Racial Studies vol. 5:1 (January 1982): 23-41. An academic article about Notting Hill Carnival, including some on its partial origins in the white counterculture of the 1960s, as well as its Caribbean origins.

Common Ground. 1997. Field Days: Ideas for Investigations and Celebrations . London: Common Ground. Eco-ritual and celebration, practical suggestions from campaign group.

Earle, Fiona, et al. 1994. A Time to Travel? An Introduction to Britain's Newer Travellers . Lyme Regis. Personal accounts of new travellers' experiences, on the road, at festivals, and so on.

Elstob, Lynne, and Anne Howe. 1987. The Glastonbury Festivals . Glastonbury: Gothic Image. A large format photo-book of Glastonbury 1970-mid-1980s, with some text, band listings.

Gardner, Peter. 1987. Medieval Brigands: Picture in a Year of the 'Hippie' Convoy . Bristol. Collection of photographs of new travellers on the road.

Harford, Barbara and Sarah Hopkins, eds. 1984. Greenham Common: Women at the Wire . London: The Women's Press. Account of the women's peace camp by activists involved.

Harvey, Graham. 1996. Listening People, Speaking Earth: Contemporary Paganism . London: Hurst. Includes some material on festivals, earth worship.

Hetherington, Kevin. 1992. 'Stonehenge and its festival: spaces of consumption'. In Rob Shields, ed. Lifestyle Shopping . London: Routledge. Academic piece interrogating the politics of consumption at Stonehenge Free Festival.

Hinton, Brian. 1995. Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festivals, 1968-70 . Chessington, Surrey: Castle Communications. Detail and memory of the three big events.

Holdsworth, David. 1976. The New Society: A Report of the Development of Pop & 'Free' Festivals in the Thames Valley Area 1972-1975 by the Chief Constable. Thames Valley Police Authority. One view from the authorities, focusing on the policing of Windsor People's Free Festival 1972-74, and Watchfield 1975.

Lowe, Richard, and William Shaw. 1993. Travellers: Voices of the New Age Nomads . London: Lengthy and informative transcribed first-person interviews with a range of new travellers.

Kershaw, Baz. 1992. The Politics of Performance: Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention . London: Routledge. Academic study, includes some material on crossover between alternative theatre and community ritual/performance.

Kershaw, Baz, and Tony Coult. 1999. Engineers of the Imagination: The Welfare State Handbook . London: Methuen. Revised edition. Historical and practical writings on leading British theatre/performance/ritual company Welfare State International, from 1960s origins on.

* McKay, George. 1996. Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance Since the Sixties . London: Verso. Cultural history of post-60s movements and scenes, includes a chapter on the free festivals and East Anglian fairs. Others on new travellers, anarcho-punk, rave/free parties, eco-protest…

* ———. 2000. Glastonbury: A Very English Fair . Accessible cultural history of pop festivals in Britain, with reference to the countryside of West Country and East Anglia, and a focus on the cultural politics Glastonbury. Includes detailed timeline of festival culture in Britain from the 1950s on. Photos and images.

———. 2003. '"Unsafe things like youth and jazz": Beaulieu Jazz Festivals (1956-61) and the origins of pop festival culture in Britain'. In Remembering Woodstock , Andy Bennett (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate, 90-110. Cultural history of the neglected jazz origins of pop festivals in the New Forest, Hampshire, during the 1950s.

National Council for Civil Liberties. 1986. Stonehenge: A Report into the Civil Liberties Implications of the Events Relating to the Convoys of Summer 1985 and 1986 . London: NCCL. Legal implications of the treatment of the Peace Convoy by police at the Battle of the Beanfield and beyond, signalling a serious clamping down on free festival culture by the then government.

Department of Environment. 1973. Pop Festivals: Advisory [Stevenson] Committee on Pop Festivals Report and Code of Practice. London: DoE. Surprisingly favourable report by a government-funded committee.

———. 1976. Free Festivals: First Report of the Working Group on Pop Festivals . London: DoE. Again, a surprisingly favourable report, this time specifically on free festivals, by government-funded committee, including representatives from all sides involved.

———. 1978. Pop Festivals and their Problems . London: DoE. Third and final report tells the story in its title: a much more critical official line is taken (and cf. Holdsworth 1975).

Report of Working Party Following Illegal Invasion of Castlemorton Common nr Malvern, Hereford and Worcester, May 22 to 29, 1992 . Hereford and Worcester County Council. 1993/94. Details the impact of the 1992 Avon Free Festival and mega-free-rave on local community. Had some impact on the 1994 anti-rave clauses of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act.

Rimbaud, Penny. 1999. Shibboleth: My Revolting Life . Edinburgh: AK Press. Autobiography of drummer of influential anarcho-punk Crass, includes accounts of his work in the establishment of Stonehenge Free Festival, relationship with hippy Wally Hope, Crass's fateful appearance at Stonehenge in 1982-ish.

Roseneil, Sasha. 1995. Disarming Patriarchy: Feminism and Political Action at Greenham . Milton Keynes: Open University Press. Feminist sociological analysis of Greenham Common and women's peace camp movement of the 1980s . Useful for comparing with the peace/CND rural events of some of the fairs.

Sandford, Jeremy and Ron Reid. 1974. Tomorrow's People . London: Jerome. The first large format photo book on early British pop festivals, with photos by Reid and text by Sandford. (Apparently they met on top of the pyramid stage at Glastonbury 1971 and conceived the book there and then).

Stone, C.J. 1999. The Last of the Hippies . Entertaining account of countercultural traces and clashing personalities in contemporary Britain.

Widgery, David. 1986. Beating Time: Riot 'n' Race 'n' Rock 'n' Roll . London: Chatto and Windus. The founding of Rock Against Racism, its festivals, tours, campaigns, 1976 on. Graphics and text. Useful music and carnival counterpoint to what was going on in the English countryside at the time.

Worthington, Andy. 2004. Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion. Loughborough: Alternative Albion. Fascinating history of gatherings at Stonehenge, inc. the fee festivals of 1970s and 1980s, but earlier and later events too.