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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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Tape Index Card

Swan, Nigel T

1975

Index card containing information relating to the pace-egg play performances in the Calder Valley.

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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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