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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire
Harrop, Peter K
24 December 1978
Uttoxeter Feather Guizers perform their hero/combat play in the pubs of Uttoxeter. [Pub background noise affects parts of the recordings]. Performances also recorded in Blounts Green and Loxley Green....
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...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Harrop, Peter K
27 June 1978
Tony Chambers, recorded in Ripon, talks about mumming and joining the Ripon Sword Dancers in 1962; lists other members and when they joined; learning lines; parts; costumes; dancing and music as part ...
Goathland Plough Stotts [Stots]
Weatherill, Frank (1892-1974)
1962
This file contains a photocopy of ms. notes by Frank Weatherill on the Goathland Plough Stotts [Stots], and the play performed by them ( Goathland, North Yorkshire), [2] pp. The notes appear to be par...
Sound Recording, Cheshire
Pattison, Susan
November 1974
Soundtrack for the film 'Soulcaking at Antrobus', made by Leeds University Television Service in 1975. Includes a complete performance of the Antrobus Soulcake play, recorded in the Wheatsheaf pub, An...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Harrop, Peter K
28 May 1979
Don Rouse, recorded in the Elephant and Castle pub, Bampton, talks about the Bampton mummers' play; the play's revival in 1946 by Ted Hunt, following enquiries by Reverend Bateman; the script; learnin...
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...
English Dialect Sound Recordings (Northern England)
Hornsby, G; Lenihan, J M A; Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Riddell, William
[1939]
The majority of recordings were made for the Survey of Northumbrian Dialects, in 1938 and 1939. This survey was inaugurated at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (then part of the University of Du...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Harrop, Peter K
1979
[Collector announcement]; two Pace Egg Play performances, performed as part of the conference, Perspectives on Folk Drama, held at Bretton Hall College, Bretton Hall. Collector announces the date as t...
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, ...
Holmewood. Portrait of a Village: A Survey of the Customs, Traditions and Beliefs in a Derbyshire Mining Village
Rodgers, L J
1967
A study of the folklore of Holmewood in Derbyshire. Its sections provide a brief description of the old village, with particular reference to places and objects which are part of the life and traditio...
Sound Recordings, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire, Cheshire and Oxfordshire
Harrop, Peter K
[1970-1979]
Compilation of fieldwork recordings (copy extracts) of traditional drama performances, made by a number of different collectors. Includes the Uttoxeter Feather Guizers, the Midgley Pace Eggers, Antrob...