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H: Calendar Customs
1962-1981
This series contains items relating to the celebration of calendar days and annual festivals, and related customs and traditions.
Calendar Days, Festivals, Etc.
1964-1979
This subseries contains items relating to local traditions and calendar customs. This includes a bibliography of calendar customs, items on local calendar celebrations, and papers by Alexandra Kannell...
Papers on Cambridgeshire Speech
1976-1978
This file contains a copy of 'A History and Annotated Bibliography of the Study of Cambridgeshire Speech', by Richard Coates, CCAT Papers on Cambridgeshire Speech no. 1 (November 1976), 30 pp., 2 figs...
Annual Festivals
1962-1981
This subseries contains items relating to annual festivals. This includes items on bonfire traditions, Christmas traditions, New Year, Valentine's Day, Shrove Tuesday customs, Easter Eggs, May Day and...
Calendar Customs Bibliography
Smith, Georgina
1979
This file contains a computer printout copy of Georgina Smith's bibliography of British calendar customs, which includes 334 titles. The printout consists of the bibliography listed by author, an inde...
Calendar Days
1964-1972
This file contains items on calendar customs, including Valentine's Day. This includes a photocopy of typed extracts on local customs from essays on old Mansfield, written for a competition organised ...
Popular Customs of Thrace
Kanellou-Thanassoulas, Alexandra
[ca. early-mid 1970s]
This file contains a typed paper, with ms. corrections, on the celebration of the Anastenari and the Kalogeros in North-Eastern Thrace, [24] pp.; and a photocopy of a typed paper, annotated in ms. [?b...
Annual Festivals: General
1962-1972
This file contains Mats Rehnberg's pamphlet on holidays and annual festivals in Sweden (Stockholm: Svenska Institutet, 1964), [24] pp.; a photocopy of the guide to the Stone Collection at Birmingham R...
Spring and Summer Festivals
1963-1981
This file includes a colour section from the West Yorkshire Road Car Company calendar for 1963 on well-dressing in Tissington, Derbyshire, on Ascension Day; a section of a colour poster on the May Day...
Bonfire Survey
1967-1968
This file contains items relating to a collaborative survey of bonfire customs conducted for the Folk Life Survey through the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) at Leeds, and the Depar...
Bonfire Traditions
1971-1977
This file contains items relating to bonfire traditions, and includes an anonymous ms. paper by an Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) student on bonfire traditions amongst other IDFLS ...
Christmas Traditions
1964-1972
This file contains items relating to Christmas traditions, and includes two photocopies of the section on Christmas (including Christmas Eve, games, mumming, Christmas Day, carols, decorations, food, ...