Roy Newsome Brass Band Archive

Scope and Content

The archive comprises material dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the first decade of the twenty-first century. Particularly strong are the collections of brass band music scores and parts, and serial publications. A comprehensive series of band histories is complemented by a series of band contest programmes and results sheets. There are also personal papers, photographs, audio recordings, theses and dissertations.

Administrative / Biographical History

Historical material relating to brass bands and banding started to be donated to the Music Section within Salford College of Technology in the mid-1980s. Roy Newsome had been appointed as Head of Band Studies in 1976, and he began to establish a brass band archive. Materials came from a variety of sources and the archive grew quite rapidly. Newsome further developed the archive after taking early retirement in 1989, being appointed a Visiting Research Fellow at the successor institution, the University of Salford’s School of Media, Music and Performance. He continued to manage the archive until his death in October 2011.

Access Information

Open for consultation

Other Finding Aids

None

Archivist's Note

Description created by Ian Johnston, Ocober 2014.