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holidays4
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entertainment events2
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Mitchell, Sarah L G1
Mitchell, E. M.1
Millington, Peter T1
Hawkins, Froude1

Archive File

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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The Courtney Manuscript and Related Papers

1973-1974

This file contains papers relating to the republication of Margaret Courtney's 'Cornish Feasts and Folklore' (originally published Penzance: Beare, 1890). Tony Green, lecturer at the Institute of Dial...

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Mumming: Play Texts, Etc.

Millington, Peter T

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains photocopied and typed papers, produced and collected by Peter Millington, on mumming and mummers' plays, with particular reference to Nottinghamshire. (In the following list, a coun...

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Sound Recordings, Somerset

Mitchell, Sarah L G

1978-1979

[Collector announcement: informant collector's mother]; E. M. Mitchell, of Bath, talks about present-day Christmas traditions - shopping, cards, present buying, house decorations; Christmas Eve tradit...

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