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M: Folk Music, Dance and Drama
1936-1982
This series contains items relating to aspects of traditional performance, including music, dance and drama. The items include studies of folk performance, as well as song texts and tunes, and transcr...
Village and Farm
1960-1973
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items on village and farm life, and related topics. This includes W. E. Tate's paper, 'Parish Records and the English Village Community', extracted f...
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...
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...
Towns
1968-1979
This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to aspects of towns and town life. This includes Stella Margetson's article on Victorian pantomime, focussing on London theatres,...
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...
The Dialect of Eaton-by-Tarporley (Cheshire), A Descriptive and Historical Grammar
Anderson, Peter M
1977
Ph.D. thesis which describes the sound system and accidence of the modern Eaton-by-Tarporley dialect and relates this to the system from which it is descended. Chapter 1 demonstrates the interplay bet...
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...
The Oral History and Traditions of the Lancashire Textile Workers
Taylor, Monica
1972
A study of some features of working, domestic and recreational life in the cotton town of Haslingden in Lancashire, in the early part of the twentieth century. The description of such aspects is based...
St. George and the Dragon: A Study in Folk Art
Green, R J
1964
M.A. study [submitted as part of an English Literature degree] comprising ten chapters and five appendices. These discuss definitions of the folk play (with reference made to related calendar customs)...
Transvestite Disguise in the English Folk Song Tradition
Barnes, Glynis E C
1972
M.A. study of transvestite disguise (male or female, actively performed or suggested) occurring in folk songs collected in England, North America and Australia, and following a thematic analysis by th...
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...