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Steve Roud
Takes readers month-by-month, day-by-day, through the festivities of English life. This book explains how the festivities originated, what they mean and when they occur.
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Julia Bishop,Steve Roud
Offers a collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art forms. This book brings together all the classic folk songs and many lesser-known discoveries, complete with…
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Are black cats lucky or unlucky? What should you do when you hear the first cuckoo? Since when have people believed that it’s unlucky to shoot an albatross? Why does…
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A brand new look at the folk music tradition in England, a hugely readable social history of the phenomenon.
From conkers to marbles, from British Bulldog to tag, not forgetting ‘one potato, two potato’ and ‘eeny, meeny, miny, mo’, this title looks at the games children have enjoyed, the…
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In which part of North London were wild beasts once thought to roam the sewers? Why did 1920s working-class Londoners wear necklaces of blue beads? Who was the original inspiration…
This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history.
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Jacqueline Simpson,Steve Roud
Containing 1,250 entries, this reference work is a guide to English folklore. Aimed at a broad general readership, the dictionary provides a reference source on such legendary characters as Cinderella…
For centuries, street literature was the main cheap reading material of the working classes: broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, prints, engravings, and other forms of print produced specifically to suit their taste…
Martin Graebe
Fresh look at the life of Sabine Baring Gould, most famous for composing the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers
An engrossing guide to English folklore and traditions, with over 1,250 entries. Folklore is connected to virtually every aspect of life, part of the country, age group, and occupation. From…
David Atkinson,Steve Roud
In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ‘street literature’. Not only are some traditional singers known to…
