IBEW - What's new - [2 April 2025]

  • IBEW resources - most of the content now lies within IBEW, although there are links to external resources where appropriate, particularly for existing historical resource sites. For more details, see the menus at the top of this page.
  • Document archive - some 5,680 articles, theses, and books on a variety of brass historical and current subjects, are stored in IBEW and freely available for viewing/download.
  • Scanned history - over 815 documents and items, including concert and contest programmes.
  • My personal research - in addition to being available via Academia and Researchgate, over 220 articles and books are collected here, and freely available for viewing/download.
  • IBEW Blog - smaller posts about various topics in the history of brass bands.
  • Brass Band Bibliogrphy - 14,500 entries
  • Vintage Brass Band Pictures - over 25,000 images to browse
  • Vintage Recordings - listings of 78rpm, vinyl and CD recordings
  • Image Gallery - over 4,000 brassy pictures
  • Vintage Player Pictures - nearly 2,000 images of early bandspersons and brass soloists
  • Vintage Bandstands - images from around the world
  • Humour - collected band and musical humour

External

Facebook History of Brass Bands
History of Brass Bands

Heritage Quay
Brass Bands Archive

Brass Band Results
Database of contests

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