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Bleackley, Horace William (1868-1931)1
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Green, R J1
Hatfield, E A1
International Commission On Folk Arts and Folklore1
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Judge, Roy (1929-2002)1
Moody, Frederick William1

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Archive File

Calendar Customs Bibliography

Smith, Georgina

1979

This file contains a computer printout copy of Georgina Smith's bibliography of British calendar customs, which includes 334 titles. The printout consists of the bibliography listed by author, an inde...

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Folk Life Bibliographies

University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies

[1960-1979]

This file includes a number of typed bibliographies, most of which relate to the teaching of Folk Life Studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). An introductory bibliography, ...

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Internationale volkskundliche Bibliographie = International folklore and folklife bibliography = Bibliographie internationale des arts et traditions populaires

Geiger, Paul (1887-1952); Wildhaber, Robert; Brednich, Rolf Wilhelm; International Society for Ethnology and Folklore; International Commission on Folk Arts and Folklore

1950/1951-1952/1954; 1967/1968-1983/1984 Order of titles varies: 1939/41-1942/47, Bibliographie internationale des arts et traditions populaires. International folklore bibliography. Volkskundliche ...

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A Bibliography of Books in English on Witchcraft to Which is Appended a Chronological List of Some Yorkshire Witchcraft Trials

Hatfield, E A

1968

The typed part of this study is the transcribed records of Yorkshire witchcraft trials (1583-1809), copied from original manuscripts. This part also includes an introduction explaining the selection, ...

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A dialoge or confabulation between two travellers : which treateth of civile and pollitike gouvernement in dyvers kingdomes & contries

Spelman, William (fl. 1560-1580); Pickering, John Edward Latton; Roxburghe Club

1896

Presented to the Roxburghe Club by Victor W. B. Van de Weyer. Listed as no. 128 in the Club's Catalogue of Books, 1898.

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The way we are

Visser, Margaret

1997

Originally published: Canada: HarperCollins, 1994; London: Viking, 1995.

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Ladies fair and frail : sketches of the demi-monde during the eighteenth century

Bleackley, Horace William (1868-1931)

1909

Fanny Murray.--Kitty Fisher.--Nancy Parsons.--Kitty Kennedy.--Grace Dalrymple Eliot.--Gertrude Mahon.--Bibliographies (p. 297-309)--Appendices.--Index.

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Calendar Days, Festivals, Etc.

1964-1979

This subseries contains items relating to local traditions and calendar customs. This includes a bibliography of calendar customs, items on local calendar celebrations, and papers by Alexandra Kannell...

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Plant Lore in England: 1600-1800

Drury, Susan

1984

M.Phil. thesis surveying the use of plants in material culture, as food, in calendar and social customs, in medicine, orthodox religion and the supernatural, in popular belief, divination, charms and ...

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Annual Festivals: General

1962-1972

This file contains Mats Rehnberg's pamphlet on holidays and annual festivals in Sweden (Stockholm: Svenska Institutet, 1964), [24] pp.; a photocopy of the guide to the Stone Collection at Birmingham R...

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Folk Dance: General

[1971-1979]

This file contains a photocopy of the English Folk Dance and Song Society's leaflet number 15, 'Folk Dance Articles in the Journal of the English Folk Dance Society, Journal of the English Folk Dance ...

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Mumming: General

1962-1980

This file contains items generally related to the practice of mumming, and mumming plays. This includes a photocopy of Rosemary Meynell's paper, 'Come, Brave Bow Slash and his Men', from 'Derbyshire C...

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