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Total number of records: 12

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture12
folk dancing12
english language - dialects10
folk music10
manners and customs8
community life7
folk drama5
holidays5
play5
social life and customs5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Pickering, Michael J3
Buckland, Theresa Jill2
Austin, Harry1
Baldwin, John R1
Dawney, Michael1
English Folk Dance and Song Society1
Fowell, Ann1
Harrop, Peter K1
Hayes, Raymond (1909-2000)1
Hollins, Ken1

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Folk Music in the British Isles

English Folk Dance and Song Society

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains photocopies of papers produced by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) on folk music collections and recordings in Great Britain. The file includes a photocopy of the lis...

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An Edition of George Butterworth's Folk Music Manuscripts

Dawney, Michael

1975

The abstract in this M.Phil. thesis states: George Butterworth collected folk music in England between 1906 and 1913. In collecting folk songs, he was sometimes accompanied by Francis Jekyll or Ralph ...

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Folklore Notes

Mason, Mr

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of a manuscript and newspaper cuttings compiled by a Mr. Mason ca. 1870s-1880s, which forms a collection of folklore items. Although varied, there is a regional element ...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September/October 1973

Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about the Blunt family; book rescued from house following Janet Blunt's death; JB's family members and location of living members; Janet Blunt and ev...

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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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The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance

Buckland, Theresa Jill

1976

A study of the Horn Dance of Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire, performed traditionally once a year in September. The custom was witnessed by the collector in 1974 and 1975, and further fieldwork undert...

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Sound Recording, Durham

Pickering, Michael J

5 April 1974

Professor Thomas Thacker, recorded at home in Durham; gives his recollections of Janet Bluntin the late 1920s/early 1930s; attitudes of villagers to her and vice versa; her family, folk song collectin...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Harrop, Peter K

29 May 1978

Bampton Morris Dancersdancing outside in Bampton, with musical accompaniment on an accordion and fiddle. ?Recorded at a gala/fete event - crowd noise and public address announcement is audible. [Tr. 9...

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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 Recordings, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1968-1969

Session recorded at Swindon Folksingers' Club in 1968 [?possibly a regional English Folk Dance and Song Society- organised Christmas event]; accordion tune; unidentified male sings [? 'Can You Dance t...

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Norwegian Folk Dancers
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Norwegian Folk Dancers

March 1965

4 Norwegian folk dancers (1 older boy and girl; and 1 younger boy and girl) performing in traditional dress at the Norsk Folkemuseum (Norwegian Folk Museum) in Bygdøy, Oslo. They are performing insid...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September 1973

Harry Austin, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about local people listed on an unidentified manuscript; comments on a number of local families, including the Welsh family, the Walton family, Marth...

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