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Total number of records: 77
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Morris Dancing
1963-1979
This file contains a colour section from the West Yorkshire Road Car Company calendar for 1963 on Morris dancing at Bampton, Oxfordshire; a photocopy of Roy Judge's ms. bibliography on the Cotswold Mo...
Sound Recording, Ireland
Taylor, Barry Roy
8 July 1976
Junior Crehan, recorded in Mullagh (County Clare), plays a number of fiddle tunes, and in between talks about from whom he learned some of them (slow airs, dance music); also talks about a pipe player...
Fiddler
[1968-1969]
Copy of a photograph taken in 1949, of the fiddler from the Goathland Sword Dance Team, playing and in costume, Goathland (North Yorkshire).
Britannia Coconut Dancer
Buckland, Theresa Jill
[1970s]
Britannia Coconut Dancers, in costume, performing in front of a crowd in the street at Bacup (Lancashire). The dancers wear clogs.
Ripon Sword Dancers
Bland, David
December 1972
Three sword dancers performing in the street on Boxing Day, in Ripon (North Yorkshire). The men wear costumes consisting of smock-like garments covered with small pieces of coloured and patterned mate...
Sword Dance Team
Ward, Olive
[1968-1969]
Copy of a photograph taken in 1937 of the Goathland Sword Dance Team in costume, Goathland (North Yorkshire). From left to right, the characters are the Captain, Tom, the Gentleman, the Lady, Betty an...
Sound Recording, Greater Manchester
Edwards, Janet E
[1967]
The collector introduces and sings four songs associated with May Day celebrations in Salford. These include a Molly Dancers' song, which the collector states as having been sung in the city in the 19...
Laban, Dance and Movement
Lange, Roderyk
1969-1970
This file contains two papers by Roderyk Lange on movement and dance, with reference to Rudolf von Laban's theory of movement. This includes Lange's 'Philosophic Foundations and Laban's Theory of Move...
Longsword Dancers
November 1979
Magazine cutting from an article by J. Trevor Stone in the 'Dalesman' (November 1979), consisting of a copy of a photograph taken ca. 1910 of a team of longsword dancers at Sleights (North Yorkshire)....
Sword Dance Team
[1968-1969]
Copy of a photograph taken in 1949, of the Goathland Sword Dance Teamperforming in Goathland (North Yorkshire). The team appears to be largely made up of boys rather than adult men. The dancers are sp...
The Helston Furry Dance
Cunnack, Edward M
1963
This file contains a photocopy of Edward Cunnack's pamphlet on the Helston Furry Dance (Helston: Flora Day Association and the Stewards of the Helston Furry Dance, 1963) 20 pp. This includes a descrip...
Sword Dance Team
Stott, Miss M.
[June 1965]
Copy [?made in 1965] of a photograph of members of the boy's sword dancing team, Flamborough (East Riding of Yorkshire). The boys are mid-performance, and are dressed in uniform, consisting of white t...