Scope and Contents

The collection consists of ten volumes of index slips, divided into seven for mumming plays, one for disguising and two for morris.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External Documents section below.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of printed and manuscript items, black and white and colour photographs, audio-cassettes and artefacts amassed as part of Dave Bathe’s research on Derbyshire mumming/guising traditions and the morris dance performed by members of the Taddington Oddfellows’ Lodge. The collection also contains a number of items relating to his interest in traditional custom, song and dance.For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External...

Scope and Contents

The collection comprises play scripts, photographs (black and white, and colour), newspaper cuttings, printed and manuscript items, newsletters, books and pamphlets.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a vast range of material relating to folk plays and related subjects, including books and booklets, journal articles, audio and video recordings, unpublished works such as theses, dissertations and essays, and some ephemera.The collection has been painstakingly assembled since the 1960s by Ron Shuttleworth who made it his aim to collect copies of everything that had been written on the subject of folk plays, and to provide access to the material to...

Scope and Contents

The collection comprises printed, manuscript and photographic items, including correspondence, notebooks, published and unpublished articles, pamphlets and musical notations, newspaper cuttings, and sound recordings relating to traditional dance, music and custom.