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Antrobus Soul-Caking Play
1975
This file contains a photocopy of a typed and edited transcript of a film of the Antrobus Soul-Caking Play, made in 1975 by Leeds University Television Service, 15 leaves. Two copies of the transcript...
Drama
1956-1982
This subseries contains items on aspects of folk drama. The subject matter includes general papers on folk drama; papers on aspects of traditional drama from a conference held at the University of She...
Guising in Northumberland
Johnson, W R
1969
This file contains a photocopy of a typed paper, accompanied by an ms. title-page with contact details, on guisers in North Northumberland. This includes the typed text of a guisers' play performed at...
Bishop Middleham Guisers' Play
Haile, Newton
1974
This file contains a typed copy of the text of a guisers' play performed in Bishop Middleham (Durham) in the early 1920s, compiled by Newton Haile; and an accompanying ms. letter from Newton Haile to ...
Two Stirlingshire Hero-Combat Plays
1980
This file contains a pamphlet published by the University of Stirling in 1980, containing the texts of two hero-combat plays from the Stirlingshire area. These are 'Galations', as printed in a pamphle...
The Antrobus Soul-Caking Play
Pattison, Susan
1975
M.A. study of the Antrobus soulcaking play, customarily performed at Hallowe'en and during the first two weeks of November each year. The study is presented against a background of earlier scholarly i...
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...
Pace-Eggers
[1960s]
Copy of a photograph taken in the late-19th century, which purports to be of the Kirkby Stephen Pace-Eggers, or Jolly Boys. They carry musical instruments (tambourine, fiddle and melodeon), and are dr...
Lincolnshire Folk Drama Map
Ogg, M C
April 1979
Ms. colour map, drawn in felt-tipped pen by M. C. Ogg of Colby (Humberside), showing locations in Lincolnshire where Wooing Plays were performed, and whether or not they included animal disguise. Th...
Lincolnshire Folk Drama Map
Ogg, M C
April 1979
Ms. colour map, drawn in felt-tipped pen by M. C. Ogg of Colby (Humberside), showing locations in Lincolnshire where Wooing Plays were performed, and the routes taken by the groups of performers. Th...