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Total number of records: 7

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culture7
folk drama7
english language - dialects6
manners and customs4
holidays3
play3
buildings2
community life2
entertainment events2
home2

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Read, John (1884-1963)3
Garton, J. A.2
Bonham-Carter, Victor1
Goulburn, David1
Harris, Susan1
Pattison, Susan1
Peters, Adrian1

Archive File

Morris Dancing

1963-1979

This file contains a colour section from the West Yorkshire Road Car Company calendar for 1963 on Morris dancing at Bampton, Oxfordshire; a photocopy of Roy Judge's ms. bibliography on the Cotswold Mo...

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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...

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Pace Egg Plays

1962-1976

This file contains items relating to pace egg plays, including transcriptions of play texts, and plays featuring St. George. This includes a copy of 'The Peace Egg, or St. George: An Easter Play' (Roc...

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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 Recording, Somerset

Read, John (1884-1963)

1 July 1958

Performance of the first two acts of John Read's Somerset dialect play, 'Wold Ways A-Gwain', recorded in Dinder. This follows an introduction and scene-setting by Mr. J. A. Garton.

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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...

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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...

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