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A Collection of original local songs

Folk songs from the Geordie area of England

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ4656021 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Collection of Original Local Songs (full title - “A Collection of original local songs by Thomas Marshall – Printed for the author by Wm Fordyce, Dean Street, Newcastle 1829) is a Chapbook of Geordie folk song consisting of eleven songs written by Thomas Marshall, published in 1829, by the author himself.

The publication

Thomas Marshall wrote all the songs.

A set of the original documents are retained in the archives of Gateshead Council. .

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “A Collection of original local songs” is folk songs from the Geordie area of England. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through original, local and songs, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1829—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, original, local and songs is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “folk songs from the Geordie area of England” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4656021. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1829.

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This entry incorporates text from “A Collection of original local songs” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.