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Total number of records: 30

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culture30
folk drama30
english language - dialects28
holidays23
manners and customs23
rites and ceremonies20
folk music10
persons7
clothing and dress6
home5

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Harris, Susan10
Pattison, Susan10
Harrop, Peter K8
Goulburn, David3
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2
Peters, Adrian2
Seal, Graham2
Swan, Nigel T2
Anderson, Peter M1
Ayers, Chris1

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Antrobus Soul-Caking Play

1975

This file contains a photocopy of a typed and edited transcript of a film of the Antrobus Soul-Caking Play, made in 1975 by Leeds University Television Service, 15 leaves. Two copies of the transcript...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Swan, Nigel T

March 1975

[Collector announcement]; performance of the Calder Valley Pace Egg Play by members of the Brighouse Children's Theatre. Recorded on 29 March 1975, in a Halifax shopping precinct. Includes audience co...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Anderson, Peter M

1973-1975

Tom Walton, recorded November 1973 in Eaton-by-Tarporley; sings one verse of a soul-caking song; also, 'I'm a warm-hearted chap' [first line], [ 'Noble Sir Arthur'], 'Blow the Winds-I-O' [chorus only]...

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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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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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The Pace-Egg Play in the Upper Calder Valley: Evidence Relating to a Folk Play Tradition, Illustrating its Features and Social Function from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. A Discussion of its Continuity

Swan, Nigel T

1975

M.A. research exercise examining the history and contemporary manifestations of the Pace Egg Play (a form of Mumming play), customarily performed each Easter in the towns and villages of the Calder Va...

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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...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Pattison, Susan

1975

Wilf Isherwood [David Goulburn also present], recorded in January 1975 at home in Antrobus, talks about soul-caking and how Antrobus acquired the horse's head - taken from the Hatton gang in 1920, fol...

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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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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...

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Soulcaking At Antrobus

University of Leeds. Television Service

1975

A complete performance of the Antrobus Soulcaking play, recorded in the Wheatsheaf public house, Antrobus (Cheshire), in November 1974. This is followed by interviews with members of the Antrobus Gang...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Pattison, Susan

1975

Bernard Hurst, recorded at home in Wincham, talks about his involvement with the Antrobus Soul-Cakers; revival of the gang c. 1947-1948, developed from Antrobus Youth Club; origins of the custom; soul...

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