CONFERENCE RECORDINGS
Folklore Society conference 2018: Working Life: Belief, Custom, Ritual, Narrative.
Recorded 27-29 April 2018 at the Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading
Archive Ref: AA/21/001
Three minute sample extracts of the talks in this archive can be heard below. To request access to the full recording of any talks from the archive, please contact us quoting the reference numbers of the talks.
Folklore Society conference 2018: Working Life: Belief, Custom, Ritual, Narrative.
Recorded 27-29 April 2018 at the Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading
Archive Ref: AA/21/001
Three minute sample extracts of the talks in this archive can be heard below. To request access to the full recording of any talks from the archive, please contact us quoting the reference numbers of the talks.
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/a: Dr Ceri Houlbrook: “‘A Folklorist Walks into a Bar…’: The Publican as Curator of the Concealed Revealed.” Running time 31’ 57’’
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/b: Dr Stuart Dunn: “Corpse Roads: Connecting archaeology, folklore and landscape.” Running time 31’ 19’’
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/c: Prof. David Hopkin: “Lace Legends, Patrons and Celebrations: Craft Pride and Women’s Work.” Running time 57’ 13”
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/d: Ernie Warner: “Work Songs and Occupational Identity in Song and Dance.” Running time 36’ 08”
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/e: Fiona Mackenzie: “‘Bho mhoch gu dubh’: From Dawn to Dusk—a Day in the Working Life of a Hebridean Crofter.” Running time 29’ 09”
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/f: Jeremy Harte: “‘How Many Sacks Hast Thee A-Stole?’ The Miller as Folk Villain.” Running time 29’ 05”
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/g: Jo Hickey-Hall: ‘“Wilt gie us the lend of thy plough and tackle?”: Fairies at Work’ Running time 30’ 55”
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/h: Dr Matt Cheeseman: “Friday Drinks.” Running time 37’ 40”
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/i: Dr Maureen James: “‘Catch a ‘walking toad’: Exploring the Rituals and Practices of the Toadmen of East Anglia.” Running time 25’ 59”
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/j: Dr Meredith McGriff: “Individuals Together: Independent Professional Potters as an Occupational Folk Group.” Running time 32’ 54”
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/k: Dr Anne Lawrence-Mathers: “The Monks of Reading Abbey as Creators and Custodians of Images of Working Lives.” Running time 26’ 56”
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/l: Dr Nick Jones: “Encountering Tolpuddle: Landscape , Ritual and Power.” Running time 29’ 52”
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/m: Welcome to the conference, by Dr Oliver Douglas, Curator, Museum of English Rural Life, and member of the FLS Council. Running time 21’ 36”
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/n: Prof. Patricia Lysaght, The Folklore Society Presidential Address 2018: “From ‘Collect the Fragments…’ to ‘Memory of the World’. The Irish Folklore Commission (1935–1970): Achievement, Legacy, and the Digital Era.” Running time 63’ 53”
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/o: Robert McDowall: “William Cobbett: a 21st-Century Evaluation of Rural Rides.” Running time 24’ 42”
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/p: Rosalind Kerven: “Spinners, Servants and Midwives: Women at Work in British and Irish Folk Narratives.” Running time 19’ 16”
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/q: Dr Tommy Kuusela: “The Charcoal-burner, the Hunter and the Female Forest Spirit.” Running time 33’ 40”
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/r: Dr Devender Kumar: “Peasantry in North Indian Women’s Folk Song Jakari.” and Hasmik Matikyan: “Lullaby as Work Song.” Running time 59’ 44”
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Audio Ref: AA/21/001/s-u: Drinks reception performance by Jackie Oates
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