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Total number of records: 58

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture58
folk dancing58
manners and customs58
english language - dialects40
folk music36
holidays34
community life32
play25
rites and ceremonies25
social life and customs24

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette11
Buckland, Theresa Jill4
Pickering, Michael J3
Sullivan, Keith Frederick3
Baldwin, John R2
Harrop, Peter K2
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)2
Hayes, Raymond (1909-2000)2
Holy Jim2
Jimmy2

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The Bassingham Morris Text

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of an ms. recording of a Plough Monday play text used by the Bassingham Morris Dancers ( Bassingham, Lincolnshire) in 1896. The text includes illustrations of the charac...

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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Buckland, Theresa Jill

10/Dec/1975 - 10/Dec/1975

Ann Fowell, recorded in Abbots Bromley on the 10 December 1975 ; talks about the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance - the whereabouts of the whip seen in a photograph of the Hobby Horse; husband, James Fowell,...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire and Derbyshire

Russell, Ian

June-August 1971

Tommy Hoyland sings 'Six Jolly Miners', and talks about the Grenoside Sword Dance. Recorded in the Shoulder of Mutton pub, Worrall, near Sheffield, on 13 June 1971. [Tr. 3] Douglas Marsden sings 'As...

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Crow Dancers
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Crow Dancers

Lloyd, Albert Lancaster (1908-1982)

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph, printed on paper, of crow dancers performing a crow dance in a field in Moulton (Cheshire). The dancers wear black trousers, black winged tunics and black face masks. All have th...

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Crow Dancers
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Crow Dancers

Lloyd, Albert Lancaster (1908-1982)

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph, printed on paper, of crow dancers performing a crow dance in a field in Moulton (Cheshire). The dancer in the centre of the picture is dressed as a scarecrow, and wears an old ma...

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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...

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The Goathland Sword Dance

Ridden, G M

1969

A descriptive account of the Goathland sword dance, with consideration also given to the Plough Stots and folk play traditions of the village. Fieldwork was carried out in March 1968, the principal in...

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Ukwu Festival Dancer
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Ukwu Festival Dancer

Maduakor, Robert Obiatuegwu

1978

Card-mounted copy of a photograph taken ca. 1976 of a female dancer at the Ukwu Festival, Nigerian East Central State, Idemmli Division. The dancer wears bells on her ankles, and heavy anklets which r...

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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...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Lancashire

Harrop, Peter K

March 1978

[Collector announcement]; Brighouse Children's Theatre perform a Pace Egg Play, outside the Piece Hall in Halifax on the 25 March 1978. [Tr. 3] [Collector announcement]; the Britannia Coconut Dancer...

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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Buckland, Theresa Jill

08/Sep/1975 - 08/Sep/1975

Douglas Fowell, accompanist to the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, recorded in Abbots Bromley; plays tunes on the piano accordion: 'Cock of the North', 'The Girl I Left Behind Me' , 'River of Jordan', 'Off...

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Recordings of Yorkshire Songs, Music and Customs at Cecil Sharp House, London

English Folk Dance and Song Society

[1964]

This file contains a typed list of recordings held by the English Folk Dance and Song Society at their headquarters, Cecil Sharp House, London. The recordings cover the period ca. 1940-1964, and inclu...

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