The Development of Research into Children's Folklore in England

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M.A. research dissertation comprising essays intended to show the general development of responsible interest in children's folklore since the late eighteenth century. The study assesses the importance and value of a number of individual contributions to this field of study, and describes in chronological order the work of Joseph Strutt, James Halliwell, Philip Gosse, Henry Bolton, Lady Alice Gomme, Edward Nicholson, Henry Bett, Leslie Daiken, Doreen Gullen, Norman Douglas, Iona Opie and Peter Opie.

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Spiral-bound field notebook containing words and descriptions of children's games, recorded in three Leicester schools in February and March 1962. The provenance of this book is unclear, but the cover names John S. Chamberlain as the informant in one ms. hand, whilst another ms. hand on the cover states the visits to the schools were made by students in the Department of Education, University of Leicester. The book bears an Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies accession number on the front cover.


A mounted newspaper article on John Chamberlain's fieldwork in Leicester is held in the Folk Life File, LAVC/FLF/16/2/1.


Chamberlain tape recorded a schoolboy talking about children's games, during fieldwork in Wetwang (East Riding of Yorkshire). Although no reference is made to it in the thesis, it is possible that the recording was made in relation to his research into the study of children's folklore. See audio tape LAVC/SRE/A099r.

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