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Total number of records: 40

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture40
english language - dialects38
folk drama36
holidays34
manners and customs34
rites and ceremonies34
folk music26
persons7
clothing and dress6
folk dancing5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Harrop, Peter K40
Chambers, Tony2
Seal, Graham2
Adams, Ken1
Ayers, Chris1
Bbc1
Beezer, Mr.1
Buckland, Mr.1
Hall, Reg (1933-1933)1
Hutchings, Ashley1

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The Performance of English Folk Plays: A Study in Dramatic Form and Social Function

Harrop, Peter K

1980

Ph.D. thesis based on fieldwork carried out between October 1977 and February 1980, in five places where traditions of the English folk play remain extant. These are the Soulcakers of Antrobus, mummin...

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Sound Recording, North Lincolnshire

Harrop, Peter K

6 January 1978

Pub singing, recorded in the village of Haxey, before the playing of the Haxey Hood game, an inter-village contest held annually between Haxey and Westwoodside, and involving the players' attempt to m...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Harrop, Peter K

May 1978

[Collector announcement]; Bampton Morris Dancers' get together [?recorded in a Bampton pub]; female sings [unidentified]; male relates an anecdote regarding the meeting of the Bampton Morris Dancers; ...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Harrop, Peter K

May 1978

Bampton Morris Dancers dancing outside in Bampton; fiddle and accordion accompaniment. Possibly a continuation of the recording on tape LAVC/SRE/A497r.

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Harrop, Peter K

29 May 1978

Bampton Morris Dancers dancing in Bampton [followed by collector announcement - team leader, location and date]; accordion accompaniment, crowd noise, morris bells [collector announces team leader for...

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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, Cheshire

Harrop, Peter K

4 November 1977

[Announcement by Graham Seal]; Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play in Antrobus Parish Hall [?for an audience of schoolchildren]. Includes the complete play, with introductory and closi...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Harrop, Peter K

31 October 1978

Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play outside the Holly Bush pub, Little Leigh. Incomplete recording - starts with fragment of the Doctor's speech, and continues with Dairy Doubt. [Tr. 1...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Harrop, Peter K

3 November 1978

Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play in Antrobus Parish Hall. [Tr. 4] Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play in the Windmill pub, Tabley. Incomplete recording - starts wi...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Harrop, Peter K

4 November 1978

Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play in the Spinner and Bergamot pub, Comberbach. [Gap/drop-out during Beelzebub's speech.] [Tr. 8] Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Harrop, Peter K

31 October 1979

Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play outside the Holly Bush pub, Little Leigh; [collector announcement]. [Tr. 1] Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play in the Maypole pub...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Harrop, Peter K

31 October 1979

Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play in the Hazel Pear pub, Acton Bridge, followed by an interview in the pub with Ian MacCormack (Beelzebub); talk of the players' speech/accent, learni...

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