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Five Aspects of Woman in North-West Galician Rural Society
Davenport, H
1975
M.A. thesis (School of Special Studies in Spanish) on certain roles of the woman within rural society in the north-west region of Galicia. Chapters cover the physical geographical and social condition...
Erb-Huldigung, so dem aller- durchleüchtigist- grossmächtigist und unüberwindlichsten Römischen Käyser : auch zu Hungarn und Böheimb König, K.K., als Ertz-Hertzogen zu Oesterreich Josepho dem Ersten, von denen gesambten Nider-Oesterreichischen Ständen... und denen von Wienn ... auff den 22. dess Monats Septembris, Anno 1705 angesetzten Tag abgelegt
Bülich, Ludwig von; Steinl, Matthias (1644-1727); Pfeffel, Johann Andreas (1674-1748); Engelbrecht, Christian (1672-1735); Hackhofer, Johann Cyriak (1675-1731)
[1705]
Illustrations: five single plates, one large folded plate and five double plates, comprising the frontispiece and eleven plates numbered in Roman numerals. The frontispiece showing Joseph enthroned in...
The Uttoxeter Feather Guizers' Christmas Mumming Play
Eames, Bronwen A
1981
A dissertation which examines the Uttoxeter Feather Guizers' mumming play, its importance to the people who act it, the town's mumming tradition and the contemporary importance of the play to Uttoxete...
Beschreibung was auf Ableiben weyland Ihrer Keyserl Majestät Josephi, biss nach vorgegangener Erb-Huldigung, welche dem allerdurchleuchtigst- grossmächtigst- und unüberwindlichsten Römischen Keyser, Carolo dem Sechsten... als Erz-Herzogen zu Oesterreich, die gesamte nider-oesterreichische Stände den 8. Novembris A: 1712. jn allertieffester Unterthänigkeit abgelegt, sich Merkwürdiges hat zugetragen
Mairn, Johann Baptist von (fl. 1712); Hackhofer, Johann Cyriak (1675-1731); Engelbrecht, Christian (1672-1735); Pfeffel, Johann Andreas (1674-1748); Kenckel, Benjamin; Beduzzi, Antonio Maria Nicolao
[1712]
Illustrations: five single plates, including the frontispiece, one large folded plate and six double plates. The frontispiece is engraved by Benjamin Kenckel after Antonio Beduzzi. The other plates ar...
Domestic Life in Rural Suffolk
Niccolls, Sharon
1982
A dissertation which analyses continuity and change in domestic customs and traditions in rural Suffolk, in the fifty years to 1982. The first of four chapters focusses on the housewife, and contains ...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Harrop, Peter K
26 December 1977
[Collector announcement]; Ripon Sword Dancers, recorded in the streets of Ripon, perform the Ripon Sword-Dance Play. Includes singing at the start and finish; and comments by the performers whilst wal...
Innovation and Change in the Celebration of Christmas in the Ukrainian Community of Lower Hurst
Drinkwater, Jane Margaret
1976
A study of a community of Ukrainian immigrants living in the Lower Hurst area of Greater Manchester, near Ashton-under-Lyne, with particular reference to customs and beliefs associated with their cele...
A Survey of Annual Bonfires in England 1900-1910
Molloy-Morley, Carolyn
1967
A report outlining the findings of a survey undertaken collaboratively between the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies at Leeds, and the Department of English at University College, London . Th...
Changes in the Transmission of the Story of Pocahontas in England from 1625 to the Present Day
Traynor, Helena M
1978
A study comprising six chapters. The Introduction contains sections on the transmission of folktales, the story of Pocahontas, types of changes in the transmission of folktales and the format of the c...
The Living Dialect of Nangreaves near Bury, Lancashire
Brown, Nora S
1968
A study of the dialect spoken in Nangreaves in Lancashire, based on fieldwork interviews with five local informants. The Introduction contains information on the village and the informants, and includ...
The Living Dialect of Walsden, Lancashire
Leach, Elaine
1969
A study of the dialect spoken in Walsden, West Yorkshire (in Lancashire when the study was undertaken), based on data collected from three local informants during 1968 and early 1969. An introductio...
The Anastenari: A Popular Thracian Religious Custom
Kanellou-Thanassoulas, Alexandra
1976
M.A. study of a popular religious custom, celebrated over four days in May in Greece, by descendants of East Romelian ( North-East Thrace) refugees, living in the country since 1914. The people who ce...