Games and Pastimes

Description

This file comprises four photographic prints of historic European playing cards, accompanied by a photocopy of a typed key to the plates; a photocopy of Frank Weatherill's typed and ms. notes on the games of fox and geese, merrills and nine men's morris (May 1970; copied 22 August 1973); Jennifer Stead's typed paper on the game of Ringing Adam Bells (a feature of laiking neets in Yorkshire), accompanied by a photocopy of a typed letter on the subject from Iona Opie (17 December 1976), and Jennifer Stead's typed letter to Stewart Sanderson (19 April 1977); and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings from the 'Yorkshire Evening Post', 'Country Life', the 'Dorset Evening Echo' and the 'Times', on merrills, nine men's morris, Chinese ivory puzzles, dwile flonking in Dorset, and a review of Iona Opie and Peter Opie's 'Children's Games in Street and Playground' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969).


File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.

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Reproduction

Access

There are no access restrictions on items in the Folk Life File.

Material in this collection is in copyright. Photocopies or digital images can only be supplied by the Library for research or private study within the terms of copyright legislation. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain the copyright holder's permission to reproduce for any other purpose. Guidance is available on tracing copyright status and ownership.

Related material

Other papers by Frank Weatherill on folklore, folk songs and drama, are held at

- LAVC/FLF/11/1/1

- LAVC/FLF/13/1/8

- LAVC/FLF/14/1/3/6

- LAVC/FLF/14/4/10


Photographs of Frank Weatherill taken by Bob Pegg in 1967, including photographs of him playing the violin, are held at LAVC/PHO/P1725, LAVC/PHO/P1738 and LAVC/PHO/P1739.

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