Academia

Jack Hogsden is venturing further into the field of academia and research, and is available to assist on research matters, sourcing, and evidence location. He is due to begin MA Archives and Records Management with Aberystwyth University in 2025, and is specialising in digital collections management and rare book handling, specifically surround folk music, song, and dance. He is the curator of the John Bacon Archive of Morris Dancing (held and presented by Ditchling Morris - link here), showcasing the archive recordings of John Bacon, with hundreds of hours of morris footage from around the world. He is also working on the cataloguing of his own library of music, and utilising the databases of VWML, EBBA, Bodleian Library, National Library of Scotland, the Library of Congress, Cambridge University and the University of Kentucky, as well as many smaller independent libraries to create a cross-referenced folk database like no other. 

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Jack is also currently working on his first academic publication, "In Comes I... The Sussex Collection of Mummers Plays from Dennis Outred", which explores the socio-historical elements of Sussex Mumming, with full textual analysis, comparative essays, and the original sources, which are currently in the collection of Ditchling Mummers. 

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Jack is available for providing talks, lectures, and seminars on matters surrounding folk music, song, dance, and the customs associated with these areas of study.