New research digs down into the history behind one of the 17th century's most iconic protest songs

Or: What happens when you take 400 years of protest songs and an impact budget, and then collaborate with a community theatre group

A showcase for our Latitude Festival appearance, beautifully documented in this video – watch on YouTube for the fullscreen experience.

Composer Uri Agnon demonstrates how two pieces of highly conceptual music can make a tangible difference to the climate crisis.

John Street interviews one of OSV's collaborator-songwriters about her work, both musical and in the community

Featuring the latest additions to our archive, developed with The Common Lot.

Video, photos and writeup of our concluding gig and exhibition in September 2022, in league with the magnificent Carnival Band.

Stewart Duncan gives us a glimpse into the musical strategies of labour activists in interwar England.

One Norwich photographer's recent work – and life mission

Teaming up with old comrades The Common Lot, OSV spent a weekend radicalising the Faraway Forest at Latitude Festival

The third in our running series, showcasing the songs you've sent us.

Our latest guest author opens our ears to environmental protest songs in a country caught between its ideals, its natural resources, and the rights of its native peoples.

How the case of one abolitionist song prompts us to expand our ideas of music-making.

An exemplary case from sound studies, arguing that considering songs within the broader soundscape of nineteenth-century protest reveals their revolutionary potential.

A glimpse into the key songs and singers across 250 years of Birmingham radicalism.

The second in our running series, showcasing the songs you've sent us.

An essay from the frontlines of multicultural musical protest in the Tory England of the early 1990s, from the writer of dance hit 'Hippychick'.

The first in a running series, collating and showcasing the songs suggested by other voices.

On 13 Jan 2022, OSV officially launched with an exhibition, Q&A and concert at the Norwich Arts Centre, featuring Steve Ignorant and his band Slice of Life.

The following started as an invitation to Keith Negus (Professor of Musicology, Goldsmiths University of London) to write a blog on his thoughts about the category of the protest song in the OSV project. It has become a dialogue between him and John Street, OSV's Principal Investigator.

Ethnomusicologist Professor Noriko Manabe interrogates a reworking of The Beatles as parodic protest in 21st-century Japanese politics and culture.

Musician and designer Mat Martin offers a personal reflection on the politics of failure in the music of Manic Street Preachers.

Along with the books and articles featured in our Bibliography, there are of course any number of digital resources relating to English protest song. This is a guide to a dozen of the most useful.