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Some Aspects of Mothering Sunday (With Particular Reference to Nottingham)
Warren, Vivien P.
1966
A study of Mothering Sunday, with particular reference to its observance in Nottinghamshire. Chapter One covers the origins, growth, partial extinction and revival of the custom, with reference to Con...
The Greenwood Manuscript
Greenwood, Harry
[1970s]
This file contains a photocopy of a manuscript compiled by Harry Greenwood of Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, being memoirs of local life and traditions prior to World War Two. The manuscript appears to ...
Up-Helly-Aa: Ship Burning
Nott, Dorothy A
January 1968
Burning of a replica Viking ship at the Up-Helly-Aa festival in Lerwick (Shetland Islands). Traditionally, Yule fires were burnt for the festival. The custom of burning a Norse galley was introduced i...
Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian
March-April 1971
Col Goodison, recorded in his home in Sheffield, singing and in conversation. Sings fragment of 'Give Me the Spade'; talks about other songs/singers, including his father; Knur and Spell; Christmas ca...
Sound Recording, Nottinghamshire
Warren, Vivien P.
20 March 1966
Mothering Sunday service recorded in and outside Coddington Church, Coddington. Prayers; reference to the Mothering Sunday Revival movement, organised by Constance Penswick-Smith[pseudonym: real name ...