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Total number of records: 12

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture12
folk drama12
manners and customs11
english language - dialects9
holidays9
rites and ceremonies8
folk music5
social life and customs5
community life4
play4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Harrop, Peter K3
Green, Anthony E (1943-)2
Beezer, Mr.1
Bonham-Carter, Victor1
Calvert, Valerie E1
Dyson, Mina1
Eames, Bronwen A1
Garton, J. A.1
Green, Charles1
Hayes, Raymond (1909-2000)1

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Harrop, Peter K

24 December 1977

[Collector announcement]; Bampton Mummers, recorded in Bampton, performing their Christmas play in the Morris Clown pub [Tr. 1], the Jubilee pub [Tr. 2], the Talbot pub (includes collector's conversat...

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Plough Monday

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1982

This file contains a typed letter from Tony Green to the Editor of the 'Times', concerning a letter to that newspaper from Mr. J. W. Swillington regarding Plough Monday and the traditional drama assoc...

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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Eames, Bronwen A

[1979]

Two performances of the Uttoxeter Feather Guizers' Christmas Mumming Play, recorded in two pubs in Uttoxeter. [The recording level on both is very low, and there is much background noise from people i...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Harrop, Peter K

31 October 1977

Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play, outside the Holly Bush pub, Little Leigh. Very low recording level. Traffic noise obscures the speakers' voices on occasion. [Tr. 1] Antrobus Sou...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

March-May 1971

Mina Dyson playing the piano and in conversation in her home in the Stannington area of Sheffield. Talks about the tunes played, in church and at carol services; village orchestras; Harvest Supper and...

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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...

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Sound Recordings, Lancashire

Calvert, Valerie E; Vickers, Emma

April 1961

Emma Vickers of Burscough talks about Burscough Fair; fortune telling with tea leaves and playing cards; good/bad luck - wedding cake, bouquets; Halloween parties at home - games; New Year traditions ...

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Winter and Spring Festivals

1965-1980

This file contains items relating to New Year, Valentine's Day and Shrove Tuesday customs. This includes a typed copy of a letter from Clare Elkin to Stewart Sanderson on the custom of painting New Ye...

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Sound Recordings, [Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Dorset, West Sussex, Gloucestershire and North Lincolnshire]

Harrop, Peter K

[1970s]

Compilation of recordings (copy extracts) of traditional drama performances, including also some conversation regarding mummers and mumming. The provenance of these recordings is uncertain, as are the...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

2 April 1976

[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; talks about songwriting, singing and playing at dances in the local school hall; playing the banjo and ukulele; sings and p...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

26 October 1973

Frank Weatherill, recorded at home in Danby; sings an unidentified song about farmers' lads; relates anecdotes/stories regarding a dog and a hare, dialect, friends reunited, father quarrying and workm...

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Sound Recording, Devon

Read, John (1884-1963)

8 July 1958

[John Read announcement]; John Read, recorded at the home of his friend, Victor Bonham-Carter, in East Anstey, giving his recollections of country life and the dialect in south-eastern Somerset. Talks...

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