Children's Songs and Rhymes
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Children's Songs and Rhymes
Classmark: LAVC/FLF/16/2/1
Site Location(s): Subject - Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom( 55.9521, -3.19648 )
Date(s): 1954-1979
Size and medium: 1 file with 1 pamphlet, a mounted newspaper cutting, a photocopied newspaper article and a magazine extract.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410823
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
This file comprises a copy of James Ritchie's 'The Singing Street: A Merry-Ma-Tanzie of Skipping, Hopping, Stotting, Hiding, Birling, Playing, and Dancing Rhymes', revised edition (Edinburgh: Albyn Press, 1954), 16 pp., featuring songs and rhymes collected from pupils at Norton Park School, Edinburgh, ca. 1951, where Ritchie taught for over thirty years; a mounted newspaper cutting from 'The Guardian', on John S. Chamberlain's fieldwork in Leicesterfor his M.A. thesis on children's folklore (8 October 1961); a photocopy of an article by Philip Lyon from the 'Halifax Courier' (February 1964) featuring an interview with Tony Green on the collection of children's playground games and songs; and Rosemary Dinnage's interview article with Iona Opie and Peter Opie on childhood games, rhymes and jokes, and their work collecting them, extracted from 'New Society' (25 October 1979), pp. 180-183.
File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.
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