Folk Play Links - Oxfordshire, England

Compiled by Chris Little



Groups listed may be folk club, morris dance or amateur drama groups, as well as traditional performers. Publications listed may be cited, extracted or summarised publications, as well as full text.


Groups

001 * A Winter's Play [by William Masterson [sic], in Parish Paper, Jan. 2008 - about Oxford University Morris Men]
002 * Abingdon Mummers / Abingdon Morris Men [perform Sunningwell text]
003 * Adderbury Mummers / Adderbury Morris Men [perform Derbyshire text; photos; scripts]
004 * Bampton Mummers [perform Bampton text]
005 * BBC Oxford - Mummer's the word for Christmas drama
006 * Blewbury Mummers [programme]
007 * Charlbury.info [Photos of Finstock Mummers]
008 * Finstock Mummers 20th Anniversary [in Finstock News, 41, Dec./Jan. 2006/2007 - and photo]
009 * FTX-383 - Early Days : William Kimber Talking [CD for sale: Audio about Headington Quarry Mummers, 1951]
010 * Headington Quarry Morris Dancers [photo; programme]
011 * Homer Sykes Collection [Photo of Blewbury Mummers]
012 * King Stone Mummers [photos]
013 * Kirtlington Morris [perform Kirtlington text - compiled from both R. Brett & G. King.]
014 * Once a Year [extract from Homer Sykes, 1977, pp.150-152 - Photos of Bampton Mummers and Mummer]
015 * Oxford City Morris Men
016 * Oxford University Morris Men [perform Holton text]
017 * Towersey Morris [photo]
018 * Uffington Mummers / Icknield Way Morris Men [perform Uffington text; photos; cast]
019 * Wantage Mummers / Icknield Way Morris Men [perform Steventon text; photos; programme]
020 * Windmill Mummers / Windmill Players [North Leigh] [photos]

Publications

021 * A History of the County of Oxford. Vol.05 - Bullingdon Hundred [ed. by Mary D. Lobel, 1957, p.190 - 'Iffley', by J. Catherine Cole]
022 * A History of the County of Oxford. Vol.05 - Bullingdon Hundred [ed. by Mary D. Lobel, 1957, p.169 - 'Holton', by ?]
023 * A History of the County of Oxford. Vol.05 - Bullingdon Hundred [1957, pp.096-116 - 'Cuddesdon']
024 * A History of the County of Oxford. Vol.05 - Bullingdon Hundred [1957, pp.157-168 - 'Headington']
025 * A History of the County of Oxford. Vol.06 [1959, pp.182-195 - 'Lower Heyford']
026 * A History of the County of Oxford. Vol.11 - Wootton Hundred (Northern Part) [ed. by Alan Crossley, 1983, pp.75-81 - 'Westcott Barton', by Janet Cooper - citation of O.A.S. Report, 1904, pp.25–26]
027 * A History of the County of Oxford. Vol.12 [1990, pp.98-110 - Eynsham : Introduction]
028 * A History of the County of Oxford. Vol.13 [1996, pp.8-17 - 'Bampton and Weald : Introduction']
029 * An Old Christmas Custom at Chadlington [citation of Keith Chandler, in Wychwoods History, No.9, 1994, pp.56-60]
030 * Bampton Folklore [Book for sale: by John Blair, 2001 - includes Bampton texts]
031 * Bartholomew Callow [by Michael Pickering, in Musical Traditions, No.5 - Mummers at Clifton & Deddington]
032 * Blewbury : a Hundred Years of Photography [by Roger Cambray, 1979, p.48]
033 * British Movietone [Video of Thames [sic] Mummers, 1932 - Story No.02176]
034 * Carols and Poems from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Time [ed. by A.H. Bullen, 1886, pp.xxi-xxii, 270 - fragment]
035 * Eight Mummers' Plays [extract from Alex Helm, 1971 - Chadlington text]
036 * Eynsham Morris [2nd edition only] [by [Mike Heaney], [19??] - Photo of Eynsham Mummers, pre 1914]
037 * Eynsham Morris Dancers between the Wars [by Keith Chandler, in The Eynsham Record, No.3, 1986, pp.42-43]
038 * Folk-Lore in Berkshire [by W. Niven, in Home Counties Magazine, Vol.V, 1903, pp.120-122 - Buckland text; citation of Pall Mall Gazette, 22nd Dec. 1902]
039 * Highways and Byways in Berkshire [by James Edmund Vincent, 1919, pp.163-165 - Drayton fragment]
040 * History of the Parish and Town of Bampton, [2nd edition] [by Rev J.A. Giles, 1848, p.60; pp.176-178 - [Frome ?] fragments]
041 * History of Witney [by Rev Dr Giles, 1852, p.62]
042 * In the Days of Victoria : Some Memories of Men and Things [by Thomas F. Plowman, 1918, p.88, 3 - at Oxford]
043 * James Madison Carpenter and the Mummers' Play [citation of Steve Roud & Paul Smith, in Folk Music Journal, Vol.7 No.4, 1998, pp.498-513 - Garsington (2), (Ampleforth (2) & Elsham) texts from James Madison Carpenter Collection]
044 * Lark Rise [extract from Flora Thompson, 1939, pp.266-267 - not at Lark Rise [Juniper Hill]]
045 * May Day to Mummers [Book for sale: by Christine Bloxham, 2002 - Stoke Talmage, Islip, Thame & Westcott Barton texts]
046 * Mummering and Niggering in Bloxham [by Y.S. Huntriss, in Cake & Cockhorse, Vol.7 No.7, Autumn 1978, pp.219-224]
047 * Mumming in Bampton [citation of Peter Harrop, in Folk Life, Vol.18, 1980]
048 * Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards [by Edward Jones, 1794, p.108 - Oxfordshire text - Subscription required for Gale: Eighteenth Century Collections Online]
049 * Notes on Some Old-Fashioned English Customs: The Mummers; … [by G.A. Rowell, in Folk-Lore Journal, Vol.IV No.2, Jun? 1886, pp.97-101 - at ?; text; fragment]
050 * Obituaries : Jon Drake (1963) [in Linacre News, Iss.24, Autumn 2002 - Archived]
051 * Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: [New edition, with further additions [by James Orchard Halliwell] only] [by John Brand, rev. by Sir Henry Ellis, 1849, Vol.I p.466 - mummers at Islip]
052 * Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time [by P.H. Ditchfield [Rector of Barkham], 1896, (pp.9-12 + 310-315 - [at Barkham] & paraphrasing A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases, by Major B. Lowsley, 1888, pp.17-22;) (12-15 - Stoke Gabriel fragment;) (315-316, viii - at Brightwalton;) 316-320, viii - Islip text from Percy Manning Collection; 320-326 - Bampton text]
053 * Otmoor and its Seven Towns [by Hobson & Price, 1961, p.43 - Mummers at Horton-cum-Studley]
054 * Oxfordshire Christmas Miracle Play [by Frederick George Lee, in Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.II No.52, 26th Dec. 1874, pp.503-505 - Thame text; (at Brill House, Brill;) at Thame Park, Thame]
055 * Oxfordshire Mummers [by The Editor [?], in Folk-Lore, Vol.V No.1, Mar. 1894, pp.88-89 - extract from Daily Graphic, 4th Jan. 1894 - illustration of mummers at Oxford]
056 * S. John Baptist College [by William Holden Hutton, 1898, pp.73-74 - at ([Gate Burton ?] mid-Lincolnshire) & Oxfordshire [Oxford ?]]
057 * Some Notes on Bodicote [by J.H. Fearon, in Cake and Cockhorse, Vol.3 No.7, Spring 1967, pp.142-143 - fragment]
058 * Strange Oxford [internet version] [ed. by Morgan, 1987 - Thame texts from James Madison Carpenter Collection + Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.II No.52, 26th Dec. 1874, pp.503-505 & Photo of Strange Folklore Society, mid 1980s]
059 * Supplement to Glossary of Words used in Oxfordshire [by Mrs [Angelina] Parker, 1881, p.74 - entry for 'As' - fragment]
060 * The Berkshire Book [2nd edition] [extract from Berkshire Federation of Women's Institutes, 1951 - Mummers at Abingdon]
061 * The Changing English Village : A history of Bledington, Gloucestershire in its setting 1066-1914 [extract from M.K. Ashby, 1974, pp.305-306 - Idbury fragment ?]
062 * The Hagbourne Mummers Play [by John Stanley, in East Hagbourne Times : Portrait of an English Village, comp. by Brenda Clare et al., 1995, pp.18-19 - citation of text from James Madison Carpenter Collection via Ron Shuttleworth Collection & Photos of Hagbourne Mummers, mid 1990s]
063 * The Mummers Play [by Roger Giles, in Sphere ?- Chadlington text, 1893]
064 * The New Oxfordshire Village Book [extract from comp. Oxfordshire Federation of Women's Institutes, 1990, p.157 - 'Little Milton' - Archived]
065 * The New Oxfordshire Village Book [extract from comp. Oxfordshire Federation of Women's Institutes, 1990, p.26 - 'The Bartons' - Archived]
066 * The New Oxfordshire Village Book [extract from comp. Oxfordshire Federation of Women's Institutes, 1990, p.43 - 'Brightwell-cum-Sotwell' - Archived]
067 * The New Oxfordshire Village Book [extract from comp. Oxfordshire Federation of Women's Institutes, 1990, p.87 - 'Drayton' - Archived]
068 * The Oldest British Folk Play [by Michael J. Preston, in Folklore Forum, Vol.VI No.3, Jul. 1973, pp.168-174 - Islip text]
069 * The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire. Vol.4 [ed. by William Page & Rev P.H. Ditchfield, 1924, p.341 - 'The Hundred of Ock', by Ada Russell - 'Drayton' - citation of Highways and Byways in Berkshire, by James Edmund Vincent, 1919, pp.163-165]
070 * The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire. Vol.4 [ed. by William Page & Rev P.H. Ditchfield, 1924, p.363 - 'The Hundred of Ock', by Ada Russell - 'Milton' - citation of the vicar]
071 * The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire. Vol.4 [ed. by William Page & Rev P.H. Ditchfield, 1924, p.367 - 'The Hundred of Ock', by Ada Russell - 'Steventon' - citation of ?]
072 * The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire. Vol.4 [ed. by William Page & Rev P.H. Ditchfield, 1924, p.381 - 'The Hundred of Ock', by Ada Russell - 'Little Wittenham' - citation of the vicar]
073 * The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire. Vol.4 [ed. by William Page & Rev P.H. Ditchfield, 1924, p.385 - 'The Hundred of Ock', by Ada Russell - 'Long Wittenham' - citation of ?]
074 * Travels Round our Village [by Eleanor G. Hayden, 1905, p.115 - Mummers at [West Hendred]]
075 * Wiltshire Record Office [Ref. 2598/36] [Alfred Williams Collection - Aston / Bampton / Chimney text - citation of The Oxford Times]

[General]

076 * Banbury Hobby Horse Festival [National gathering of traditional and modern 'humanimals' that features some folk drama, such as Kentish hoodening, Welsh Mari Lwyd, tup and other mummers plays.]
077 * Christminster Singers [1999 performance]
078 * Cumnor Parish Record
079 * Leafield Village [Broken link to Martin Collin's webpage with R.J.E. Tiddy's text]

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