Janus: Eastern Counties Folklore Society: Records

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MS Add.693	Lists of sea-shells
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Eastern Counties Folklore Society: Records

Title	Eastern Counties Folklore Society: Records
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.7515
Creator	Eastern Counties Folklore Society
Covering Dates	1897–1954
Extent and Medium	1 box
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

The Eastern Counties Folklore Society flourished in the 1930s, during which time its president was L.F. Newman.

Records, minute book, articles, photographs and notes.

Deposited by the Society, December 1955.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Eastern Counties Folklore Society: Records, MS Add.7515

Index Terms

Folklore

Cambridge

Cambridgeshire

Manuscripts/MS Add.7515 contains:

Notes on the records of the Society, compiled by L.F. Newman.

1940

Minute book of the Society.

1932–1939

Envelope containing a collection of notes, cuttings and photographs concerning the Plough Monday celebrations in Cambridgeshire villages, sent by Dr A.C. Bouquet.

1933–1935

Envelope containing notes and cuttings on local folklore, including extracts from entries in a competition for Women's Institutes of Huntingdonshire, sent by Col. C.F. Tebbutt.

1935–1936

Envelope containing notes on local folklore sent by Kenneth Jackson.

1936–1939

Envelope containing notes on local folklore sent by E. M. Wilson.

1936

Envelope containing photographs and cuttings relating to Good Friday skipping on Parker's Piece, collected by H.H. Brindley and presented to the society in 1936.

Envelope containing notes on the folklore of Wiggenhall St. Peter, presented to Edward M. Wilson by E.G. Bales, 1936.

Envelope containing summaries of entries for the Women's Institute competition 'Village Tales'.

1936

Copy of an order abolishing Stourbridge Fair, 1934, with a covering letter from Edward Wilson to Kenneth Jackson, 1938.

1934–1938

Envelope containing items relating to local folklore, sent by Charles Lucas of Burwell.

1933

Envelope containing miscellaneous papers, including notes on the gypsy's grave on the Newmarket-Bury St. Edmund's road, sent by John Saltmarsh.

1934–1937

Paper, 'Assault and Battery in Country Life', by L.F. Newman, read to the Cambridge Folk Museum Association General Meeting.

1954

Articles and a talk by L.F. Newman. Typescript 'Some Essex Customs', read to the Society by the President, L.F. Newman, 1936; articles in the Cambridge Public Library Record by L.F. Newman: 'Some note on the folklore of Cambridgeshire and the Eastern Counties' (January 1936) and 'Some Notes on life in East Anglian Villages in the early part of the Nineteenth Century' (October 1938).

1936–1938

Envelope containing miscellaneous items relating to local folk-lore, sent by various persons.

Envelope containing two copies of an article from The Farmer's Home on the making of corn dollies.

5 Oct. 1937

Copy of Walter Rye's Norfolk Songs, Stories and Sayings.

1897

Copy of Walter Rye's The Recreations of a Norfolk Antiquary.

1920

Copy of The Norfolk Almanac and Record.

1929

Reprint of L.F. Newman, 'Folklore and History', Proceedings of the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society, 5, no. 2 (1955), a condensed version of the Jim Thurn Memorial Lecture, 1954.

1954–1955