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Product Description: In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth...read more
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9781472427410 | Ashgate Pub Co, July 28, 2014, cover price $124.95 | About this edition: In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth.

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Product Description: From conkers to marbles, from British Bulldog to tag, not forgetting "one potato, two potato" and "eeny, meeny, miny, mo," The Lore of the Playground looks at the games children have enjoyed, the rhymes they have chanted, and the rituals and traditions they have observed over the past hundred years and more...read more

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9780099505273 | Reprint edition (Random House Uk Ltd, September 22, 2011), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: From conkers to marbles, from British Bulldog to tag, not forgetting "one potato, two potato" and "eeny, meeny, miny, mo," The Lore of the Playground looks at the games children have enjoyed, the rhymes they have chanted, and the rituals and traditions they have observed over the past hundred years and more.

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Product Description: London is a city with almost as many ancient legends and deep-rooted customs as it has streets and landmarks, and here a leading folklorist brings together an astonishingly rich selection of them—tales of ghosts and witches; stories about fabled events, heroes, and villains; and accounts of local supersitions and beliefs...read more

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9781847945112 | Random House Uk Ltd, October 1, 2008, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: London is a city with almost as many ancient legends and deep-rooted customs as it has streets and landmarks, and here a leading folklorist brings together an astonishingly rich selection of them—tales of ghosts and witches; stories about fabled events, heroes, and villains; and accounts of local supersitions and beliefs.

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9780099519867 | Random House Uk Ltd, June 1, 2010, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: London is a city with almost as many ancient legends and deep-rooted customs as it has streets and landmarks, and here a leading folklorist brings together an astonishingly rich selection of them—tales of ghosts and witches; stories about fabled events, heroes, and villains; and accounts of local supersitions and beliefs.

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A guide to the various customs and festivals of England, from the national celebrations to herald the new year down to small local traditions such as the Minehead Hobby Horse or Duck Racing in Oxfordshire. It also shows you where you can get free bread and beer on any day of the year; or where Mayday comes from; and more.

Hardcover:

9780140515541 | Penguin Global, February 13, 2008, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: A guide to the various customs and festivals of England, from the national celebrations to herald the new year down to small local traditions such as the Minehead Hobby Horse or Duck Racing in Oxfordshire.

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Containing 1,250 entries, from dragons to Mother Goose, May Day to Michaelmas, this reference work is a guide to English folklore. Aimed at a broad readership, it provides a reference on such characters as Cinderella, Jack the Giant Killer, and Robin Hood, and gives explanations of a wide range of subjects in folklore, from nosebleeds to cats.

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9780198607663 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 4, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Containing 1,250 entries, from dragons to Mother Goose, May Day to Michaelmas, this reference work is a guide to English folklore.

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