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Calvert, Valerie E2
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Belief and Superstition in the Area of Runcorn and Widnes

Charlton, C A

1973

A study of traditional belief in Runcorn and Widnes, based on interviews with friends and relatives, letters to local newspapers, the circulation of a questionnaire amongst friends, relatives and acqu...

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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, Liverpool, Manchester and Preston

Calvert, Valerie E

April 1961

Peggy Meek describes egg customs - conkering, displaying decorated eggs, egg rolling on Easter Monday, ingredients for decorating eggs [informant is Secretary of the Cumberland and Westmorland Benevol...

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The Pasche Egg

Calvert, Valerie E

1962

A study of the Easter egg and customs associated with it, based on questionnaire responses and fieldwork interviews with informants living in (or one time resident in) Burscough, Workington, Preston, ...

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Christmas Traditions

1964-1972

This file contains items relating to Christmas traditions, and includes two photocopies of the section on Christmas (including Christmas Eve, games, mumming, Christmas Day, carols, decorations, food, ...

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