Guising in Northumberland

Description

This file contains a photocopy of a typed paper, accompanied by an ms. title-page with contact details, on guisers in North Northumberland. This includes the typed text of a guisers' play performed at a farm on the River Tweed, ca. Christmas 1900 or 1901, related from memory by a female associate of Mr. Johnson; and a summary of supporting evidence from Florence M. McNeill's 'The Silver Bough' (Glasgow: W. Mclellan, 1957-1968), and Christina Hole's 'English Custom and Usage' (London: Batsford, 1950 (3rd ed.)).

Metadata

Identifier hjr5qf4c
IRN 410807
Class Mark LAVC/FLF/14/4/14
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/hjr5qf4c
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Drama
Creator(s) Johnson, W R
Date 1969
Size and Medium 1 file of photocopied papers.

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