Folk Play Researchers Past and Present

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Alex Helm, 1920-1970

Alex Helm, 1920-1970, Prominent folk play scholar of the 1960s and 1970s.

Alex Helm was leader of the team that published the seminal English Ritual Drama: A Geographical Index (1967).

Ron Shuttleworth

Ron Shuttleworth, 1999

Ron Shuttleworth, in Fool's Costume with the Coventry Mummers

Ron Shuttleworth is the Morris Ring Archivist for Folk Plays and Mumming

International Traditional Drama Conference 2002

International Traditional Drama Conference 2002, Christopher Cawte and Norman Peacock.

International Traditional Drama Conference 2002, John Widdowson and Peter Millington.

International Traditional Drama Conference 2002, Peter Robson and Mike Preston.

International Traditional Drama Conference 2002, Eddie Cass and Paul Smith.

Photographs of delegates at the conference held in Sheffield, England, July 2002

Members of the James Madison Carpenter Collection Project Team

Carpenter Collection Project Team 2004, The Carpenter Collection project team outside the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, 2004

Left to right – David Atkinson, Bob Walser, Tom McKean, Julia Bishop, Elaine Bradtke, Ian Russell & Eddie Cass

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