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culture7
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Swan, Nigel T2
Harrop, Peter K1
Newman, Sally1
Smith, Gus1

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The Pace-Egg Play in the Upper Calder Valley: Evidence Relating to a Folk Play Tradition, Illustrating its Features and Social Function from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. A Discussion of its Continuity

Swan, Nigel T

1975

M.A. research exercise examining the history and contemporary manifestations of the Pace Egg Play (a form of Mumming play), customarily performed each Easter in the towns and villages of the Calder Va...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Swan, Nigel T

March 1975

[Collector announcement]; performance of the Calder Valley Pace Egg Play by members of the Brighouse Children's Theatre. Recorded on 29 March 1975, in a Halifax shopping precinct. Includes audience co...

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Calderdale Pace Eggers
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Calderdale Pace Eggers

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of a pace egg play being performed at the Calder Valley Folk Festival, in an unidentified town in Calderdale (West Yorkshire), in 1956. The players are all children (boys). The Do...

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Pagan and Church Legends

1961-1972

This file contains items relating to pagan cult places, and legends and traditions connected with church history. This includes mounted magazine cuttings from 'Country Life' and 'John Peel Jottings', ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Newman, Sally; Harrop, Peter K

May 1979

Gus Smith, recorded at his farm in Midgley, talks about the Midgley Pace Egg Play, and the involvement of Sixth Formers from Calder High School; casting and the play's association with the school, pla...

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Pace Egg Plays

1962-1976

This file contains items relating to pace egg plays, including transcriptions of play texts, and plays featuring St. George. This includes a copy of 'The Peace Egg, or St. George: An Easter Play' (Roc...

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Crime

[1972-1983]

This file contains items on criminal activities, including highway robbery and coining. This includes an ms note from Ivor Clissold to Tony Green describing a custom undertaken on leaving prison, coll...

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