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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...

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Sound Recordings, [Gloucestershire]

BBC; Harrop, Peter K

[1970s]

Mr. Buckland, of Chipping Campden Mummers [?recorded in Chipping Campden on 26 December 1946], talks about the origins of the Chipping Campden mummers' play, the mummers and his joining the group, his...

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture, (Survey of English Dialects, and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies)

University of Leeds

1836-2003

The Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture comprises the combined multiple media holdings of the archives of the Survey of English Dialects (ca. 1946-1978) directed by Harold Orton, and the University of...

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Sound Recordings, [Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Dorset, West Sussex, Gloucestershire and North Lincolnshire]

Harrop, Peter K

[1970s]

Compilation of recordings (copy extracts) of traditional drama performances, including also some conversation regarding mummers and mumming. The provenance of these recordings is uncertain, as are the...

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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...

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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...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Pattison, Susan

[1975]

Adrian Peters, recorded at home in Marston, talks about his 7-8 year involvement with the Antrobus Soul-Cakers - link with wife's family and parts played [ David Goulburn contributes occasionally]; ag...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

Herbert Powell, recorded in Sutton on the 17 June 1974 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A666r]; talks about horse-drawn cultivator/plough, and compares with modern machinery; describes harrows; hand sowi...

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London : a social history

Porter, Roy (1946-2002); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1994

Includes bibliographical references and index. Formation to reformation -- Tudor London -- War, plague and fire -- The triumph of town: from Restoration to Regency -- Commercial city: 1650-1800 -- C...

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