Calendar Days
Description
This file contains items on calendar customs, including Valentine's Day. This includes a photocopy of typed extracts on local customs from essays on old Mansfield, written for a competition organised by the Nottinghamshire Local History Council (7 March 1972); a photocopy of typed words for the song, 'A Notts Harvest House' found in the Buxton Collection at Mansfield Reference Library; Eugenia Popescu-Judetz's article on St. George's Day in Romania, extracted from an unidentified issue of 'Viltis', p. 15; a photocopy of information on St. Valentine's Day, from 'The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar', ed. R. Chambers (London: Chambers, [1869]), volume 1, p. 255-257; A. L. Laishley's article on St. Valentine's Day, extracted from 'The Ridings' (February-March 1965), pp. 17-18; and a mounted newspaper cutting from the 'Westmorland Gazette'on the Grasmere Rushbearing Procession (14 August 1964). File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.
Metadata
| Identifier | hlmc9mql |
| IRN | 410691 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/9/1/2 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/hlmc9mql |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Calendar Days, Festivals, Etc. |
| Date | 1964-1972 |
| Size and Medium | 1 file of typed and photocopied papers, magazine extracts and a mounted newspaper cutting. |