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Sound Recording, St. Andrews
Read, John (1884-1963)
December 1957
[Collector announcement]; Professor John Read, reading extracts from his book, 'Farmer's Joy' (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1949). The first is from chapter nineteen, The Camel Play Actors, in which he gives an...
Verse: General
[1960s-1970s]
This file contains a typed copy of Edward K. Miller's paper, 'Local Chauvinism and Life-Experience Transfiguration in British Monologues', with photocopied notes and appendices, 19, [7] leaves. The ap...
Folk Drama: General
1956-1980
This file contains a copy of Alex Helm's typed 'Index of Folk Plays' (complete to June 1956), [41] leaves, with ms. annotations; a copy of 'Traditional Drama: S[urvey of] L[anguage and] F[olklore]. Re...
Winter and Spring Festivals
1965-1980
This file contains items relating to New Year, Valentine's Day and Shrove Tuesday customs. This includes a typed copy of a letter from Clare Elkin to Stewart Sanderson on the custom of painting New Ye...
Christmas Traditions
1964-1972
This file contains items relating to Christmas traditions, and includes two photocopies of the section on Christmas (including Christmas Eve, games, mumming, Christmas Day, carols, decorations, food, ...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
26 October 1973
Frank Weatherill, recorded at home in Danby; sings an unidentified song about farmers' lads; relates anecdotes/stories regarding a dog and a hare, dialect, friends reunited, father quarrying and workm...
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,...
Folklore Correspondence
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
1980-1982
This file contains correspondence between Tony Green and various correspondents concerning a variety of folk customs and beliefs. The file includes correspondence accompanying an article extracted fro...
The Greenwood Manuscript
Greenwood, Harry
[1970s]
This file contains a photocopy of a manuscript compiled by Harry Greenwood of Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, being memoirs of local life and traditions prior to World War Two. The manuscript appears to ...
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...
Sound Recording, Devon
Read, John (1884-1963)
8 July 1958
[John Read announcement]; John Read, recorded at the home of his friend, Victor Bonham-Carter, in East Anstey, giving his recollections of country life and the dialect in south-eastern Somerset. Talks...