EDS Vol 41 No 1
Cover: Abbots Bromley Horn Dancer
SPECIAL FEATURES
A BEGGING I WILL GO
Roy Palmer looks at the 300 year old history of the popular folk-song
RAPPER KNOTS FROM BEDLINGTON
Brian Hayden publishes for the first time the figures and background to Bedlington, Northumberland rapper dance, collected by him from the last of the old dancers in the early 1960s.
TONY WALES
An appreciation of the recently retired editor of ED&S by Tony Foxworthy
SAM SHERRY - LANCASHIRE CLOG DANCER
A short note on Sam Sherry, the subject of a recent EFDSS archival film. Researched by Anne-Marie Hulme
ST IVES FEAST
A report on the Feast Monday procession in St. Ives, Cornwall, by Keith Slocombe.
THE WITNEY TUCKERS FEAST SONG
Mike Yates describes the background of the strange Cotswold blanket-industry song Wonderfully Curious
REGULAR FEATURES
FOLKLIFE
In this issue, Tony Foxworthy writes about: Marbles, Wrothsilver, wedding traditions, school customs and maiden's garlands.
MORRIS WORKSHOP
On the making of 3 hole pipes - by Jim Jones
SONGS
3 songs collected by Mike Yates
Come All Ye Little Irish Girls
CORRESPONDENCE
REVIEWS: BOOKS - RECORDS
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