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This page lists what has been added to, or updated on, the
Folk Play Research Website.
New Home Page Photograph
[Updated 21st March 2008]
Stockport Pace Eggers in The Queens, Portwood, Mar.2008. Photo by Isobel Jackson.
Thomas Fairman Ordish Collection Checklist
[Added 21st March 2008]
A list of about 670 records of British & Irish folk plays, deposited,
with the Archives of the Folklore Society, in University College London Library. They are filed by county.
New Home Page Photograph
[Updated 5th January 2007]
The Okalolies of Tristan da Cunha, Old Year's Night 2006/07. Photo by Janice Hentley.
New Home Page Photograph
[Updated 29th October 2006]
Horse and Driver, Antrobus, 2004. Photo by Duncan Broomhead.
New Home Page Photograph
[Updated 27th February 2006]
Fylingdales Guizers, Dec.2005, making good use of veils and old neck ties. Photo by Doc Rowe.
Photographs of Folk Plays - Winter 2005/2006
[Updated 13th February 2006]
Second batch of photographs added from the Christmas - New Year - Plough Monday season 2005/06.
This collection now includes pictures for the following groups:
Bankside Mummers/The Lions Part,
Belvoir Mummers,
Bowen Island Black Sheep Mummers (British Columbia, Canada),
Calverton Real Ale & Plough Play Preservation Society,
Chiddingfold Tipteerers,
Company of Owd Oss,
Crookham Mummers,
Croxley Mummers,
Farnborough Mummers,
Fylingdales Guizers,
Guildford Mummers,
Haslemere Mummers,
The Long Company,
Minstead Mummers,
Muskham Pinkies,
Sullivan's Sword,
and Tollerton Ploughboys.
This collection also has two picture links to galleries on other websites for:
Longford Mummers, and Foresters Morris Men’s play.
Lastly there a couple of additional sets for:
Christmas Limerick Competition 2005
[Updated 6th January 2006]
The winning entries from our competition for the best limerick on a folk play theme.
New Home Page Photograph
[Updated 4th December 2005]
Photograph of the Wolfville Mummers Troupe, Nova Scotia, Canada, acting in the Newfoundland tradition, New Year's Eve 2004. Photo by Alan Slipp.
Christmas Limerick Competition 2005
[Added 10th November 2005]
The competition is for the best limerick on a folk play theme. The closure date is New Year's Eve 2005, and the prizes have been generously donated by Hedingham Fair.
Photographs of Off-Season Folk Plays 2005
[Updated 16th October 2005]
A new collection of photos
has been added, featuring the following groups:
Mumbling Mummers, Lodi, California (March),
Tewkesbury (St. George's Day),
Aughakillymaude Community Mummers (Mid Summer),
Sidmouth Mumming Play (July),
and The (Insert Name Here) Mummers (August).
In addition, further photos have been added to earlier collections:
New Home Page Photograph
[Updated 13th October 2005]
Sidmouth Mumming Play with Lord Nelson. Photo by Duncan Broomhead, July 2005
Traditional Drama Forum No.13
[Updated 1st October 2005]
The latest edition of our online newsletter includes; Mari Lwyd; Leeds Archive of
Vernacular Culture; The Derby Tup in Barrow Hill; Distinguished Mummers' sword found;
How the Cropwell Ploughboys' costume was made
Restructured Links Section
[Updated 21st September 2005]
The Links section has been restructured so that English counties and the other
main folk play nations now have their own web pages. The contents page has accordingly
been improved with more detail. There are also better options for submitting feedback
and new links. The total number of links now stands at over 1,200.
Abstracts for Traditional Drama Conferences
[Added 18th July 2005]
Abstracts have been added for most, but not all of the papers in our list of
Traditional Drama conferences held between 1978 and 2002.
Character Name Index to Folk Play Scripts
[Added 23rd May 2005]
An alphabetical index the the names of characters that appear in our Scripts Collection.
This helps you investigate given characters - the places where they appear, and how their names and lines vary.
Cast lists in the script cast lists themselves now also have links from the characer names into this index.
Photographs of Pace Eggers, Easter 2005
[Updated 23rd May 2005]
Photographs of Abram Pace Eggers performing during Easter 2005, photographed by
Duncan Broomhead
New Home Page Photograph
[Updated 23rd April 2005]
North Curry Mummers, Somerset, England. Photo by David Lawrence, Christmas 2004
Traditional Drama Forum No.12
[Updated 3rd March 2005]
The latest edition of our online newsletter includes; News; Mayoral Mummers in St.Albans;
A distinguished Mummers' sword; Traditional British drama in Japan;
Folk plays on film & video, including a filmography;
A Play Text from Penkridge, or Gailey, Staffordshire, by E.C.Cawte
New Home Page Photograph
[Updated 1st March 2005]
Pace Eggers at the Fountain, Dent, Cumbria, England.
Undated photo, possibly 1920s, courtesy Stuart Manger
Photographs of Folk Plays - Winter 2004/2005
[Updated 23rd January 2005]
Second batch of photographs added from the Christmas - New Year - Plough Monday season 2004/05.
This collection now includes pictures for the following groups:
Ashley's Rise,
Belvoir,
Bowen Island,
Chiddingfold,
Doncaster,
Holbeck Moor,
Hudson River,
Long Company,
Middleton,
Minstead,
Moulton,
North Muskham,
Otterbourne,
Overton,
Owlswick,
Redcar,
Steyning,
Tollerton, &
Wolfville.
There are also links to galleries on other website for:
Dartmoor,
Hammingden,
Vancouver,
Wantage, &
Woodside
Photographs of Folk Plays - Winter 2004/2005
[Updated 16th January 2005]
First batch of photographs added from the Christmas - New Year - Plough Monday season 2004/05.
Photographs of Cheshire Horses & Drivers 2004
[Updated 20th November 2004]
Pictures of the horses in plays performed by Soul Cakers and Soulers
from Antrobus, Chester, Comberbach, Halton and Swettenham, around All Souls'
Day 2004, photographed by Duncan Broomhead
Traditional Drama Forum No.11
[Updated 23rd October 2004]
The latest edition of our online newsletter includes; News,
TDRG meeting report, Carpenter Collection Project News, Photo
of Midgley Pace Eggers 1932, and Abram Pace Eggers' answer to the BAFTAs
Traditional Drama Conferences
[Added 23rd October 2004]
List of papers and subsequent publications presented to the
Traditional Drama Research Group's conferences, Sheffield, 1978 to 2002,
plus the Perspectives on Folk Drama conference, Bretton Hall College 1979.
New Folk Play Scripts
[Updated 4th October 2004]
21 new texts and fragments have been added to the scripts collection, including our
first Old Horse and Derby Tup scripts, and two plays from the Caribbean. These bring
the total to about 220 items. The additions are:
- The Old Horse [1819-1844]
- The Old Horse, Sheffield District, Yorkshire, 1888
- The Old Horse: Christmas Play from Notts. [1902]
- The Old Horse, North Derbyshire [1907]
- The Derby Ram, 1867
- The Old Tup, Braithwell, 1895
- The Old Tup, Castleton, 1901
- The Little Tup, Carlton-in-Lindrick, Notts., 1906
- The Old Tup, Staveley, Mr.Gascoyne's Version, 1946
- Old Tup, Staveley, Mrs.Wragg's Version, 1946
- T'Owd Tup, Eckington, 1969 [H.J.Hempton's version]
- T'Owd Tup - Eckington, 1969 [R.Heath's version
- Tragedy of St.George, St.John's, Newfoundland, c.1840
- The Salvage Play, Newfoundland, c.1900
- Mummies, St.Kitts, New Year's Day 1966
- Mummies, Pot Works, Nevis, 1930s
- The Guisers' Play, from High Spen, Co.Durham [1925]
- Plough-Monday Play from Clipsham, Rutland, 1904
- South Scarle Plough Monday Play, 1882
- Calverton Plough Monday Play Fragment, 1951
- Blidworth Plough Monday Play, c.1939
Some of the existing scripts have had illustrations and musical scores added.
We were not set up to handle these previously.
Updated Books Page
[Updated 7th July 2004]
Several new books have beed added to Ron Shuttleworth's annotated list.
Google Site Search Facility Added
[Updated 12th June 2004]
The original search facility on the Home Page was decommissioned by the
University of Sheffield due to a policy change, and we have replaced it with
their recommended alternative - Google's University Site Search. This permits
full-text searches of pages within this website.
New Folk Play Scripts
[Updated 8th June 2004]
10 new plays have been added to the scripts collection, including our
first scripts from the USA. These bring the total to just under 200 items.
The additions are:
- Christmas Play from Blennerhasset, Cumberland 1930
- Brimington Mummers' Play [Derbyshire, 1862]
- Christmas Champions play from Westerham, Kent [c.1896-97]
- Sulgrave Mummers' Play [Northamptonshire, 1921]
- Plough Boy's Play - Edingley Version [Notts., 1920s]
- Farnsfield Plough Play [Nottinghamshire, 1966]
- Burntwood Guisers' Play [Staffordshire, pre-1939]
- The Turkish Knight [Fragments. Caney Creek, Kentucky, 1925]
- The Christmas Play, Gander, Kentucky, 1930
- A Plough Monday Play [Kentucky, c.1860]
The online scripts may now include illustrations and musical scores.
Photographs of Pace Eggers, Easter 2004
[Updated 18th April 2004]
Pictures of plays performed by the Heptonstall, Midgley and
Brighouse Pace-Eggers during Easter 2004, photographed by
Duncan Broomhead
Traditional Drama Forum No.10
[Updated 10th April 2004]
The latest edition of our online newsletter includes; News,
the Duke of Cumberland in Mummers' plays, performance review
"When Icicles Hang by the Wall", and book review
"The Pace-Egg Plays of the Calder Valley"
Traditional Drama Forum No.9
[Updated 4th February 2004]
The latest edition of our online newsletter includes; News,
40 Years of Holbeck Moor Mummers, Formalising the Traditional Drama Research Group,
and reviews of Return of the Blue Stots and Folk Drama Studies Today.
Index to Roomer
[Added 31st January 2004]
Roomer was the newsletter of the Traditional Drama Research Group
between 1980 and 1991, and contained much original research and analysis.
This Index has been compiled by Christopher Cawte - one of the compilers of
the seminal English Ritual Drama: A Geographical Index (1967).
There are several sections, it includes an introduction, a cumulative list
of titles for the whole contents of Roomer, an author listing, and
indexes to places, subjects and classes of performance.
Photographs of Folk Plays - Winter 2003/2004
[Updated 24th January 2004]
Major updates to the photo galleries. The original Winter collection has been
split into two web pages for Christmas and January. These include:
- Christmas 2003:
Abingdon Mummers,
Adsborough Mummers,
Allington Morris,
Bishopswood Mummers,
Bowen Island Black Sheep Mummers,
Chiddingfold Tipteerers,
Christmas Revels (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA),
Cold Ash Mummers,
Foresters Morris Men,
Herga Mummers,
Hoxne Hundred Mummers,
Marshfield Mummers,
Moulton Mummers,
Ryknild Rabble,
St.Alban's Mummers,
and Uttoxeter Guisers
- January 2004:
Belvoir Mummers,
Calverton Real Ale & Plough Play Preservation Society,
Coleby Plough Jag,
Lord Conyer's Morrismen,
Muskham Pinkies,
Sullivan's Sword,
The Alderley Mummers Play,
The Long Company,
Tollerton Ploughboys,
and Yateley Mummers
Restructured Scripts Section
[Updated 14th January 2004]
The scripts collection has been restructured with new County and Classified indexes,
in addition to the County and Classified lists. The navigation buttons and links have
therefore been changed. Also, a new classification scheme has been implemented, based
on the one proposed by Peter Millington in his PhD Thesis (2002). The introduction to
the collection has been rewritten accordingly.
New Home Page Photograph
[Updated 4th January 2004]
Ripon Sword Dancers, Boxing Day 2002. Photo by Heather Hazell.
Courtesy of Chas Marshall's website.
Photographs of Folk Plays - Winter 2003/2004
[Updated 4th January 2004]
First photographs added - of the Muskham Pinkies.
Ron Shuttleworth's "Mother of All Wants Lists"
[Added 4th January 2004 - Revised July 2004]
A list of items published on English folk plays that Ron Shuttleworth would like to
have copies of for the Morris Ring Folk Play Archive.
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