Books written by Steve Roud

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  The English Year

  However, while the costume of modern-day morris dancers certainly retains many features that were present as far back as the 1580s, and the village green was indeed one of the dance's natural habitats, the morris also existed in other ...

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  Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America: The Interface between Print and Oral Traditions

  Elements of the earlier mnemonic and orally disseminated response to the Bible surface in a poem in the 'hen bennill' metre by Morris Roberts, published as a ballad many years after his death in c.1726.77 It begins with a metaphor from ...

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  Monday's Child is Fair of Face: and Other Traditional Beliefs about Babies and Motherhood

  BABY BUNTING Another well-known lullaby, again not changed much since its first appearance in [784, is Bye baby bunting: Bye baby bunting, Daddy's gone a-hunting, Gone to get a rabbit's skin 'l'o wrap the baby hunting in.

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  The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland

  Yorkshire Carr (1824) (see alsoCANDLES: BLUE FLAME) Perhaps a surer, though a bolder way, is for the adventurous youth or maid to walk round the church, at dead of night, on St Mark's Eve, looking into each window as they pass, ...

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  The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

  43 Early, Early All in the Spring Sung by Mrs Hollings, originally from Lincolnshire (c.1900?); collected by Frank Kidson; published in JFSS, 2 (1906), 293–4. 273 Laws, K12; 61 entries. This is a very widely known song across Britain ...

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  Folk Song in England

  These others may have been popular with miners, but Lloyd offers no evidence of this. But they may well have become so as a result of his book, as Lloyd wrote in the preface to the second edition: As it turned out, that modest first ...

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  London Lore: The legends and traditions of the world's most vibrant city

  HEN AND CHICKEN'S YARD What is known is that the story first appeared in print as T he String of Pearls: A Romance, which was serialised in Lloyd's short-lived periodical People 's Periodical and Family Library, from November |846 to ...

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  Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century: Producers, Sellers, Consumers

  He retired from the University of Aberdeen in 2009 as emeritus Keeper of Rare Books. He has written extensively on ... His publications include Children's Fiction, 1900–1950 and The World of Jennings. He is a member of the Children's ...

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  The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

  This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history.

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  A Dictionary of English Folklore

  There have been repeated attempts to persuade English people to celebrate St George's Day by flying flags or wearing a rose, and frequent newspaper ... 178–83; Christina Hole, English Folk Heroes (1948), 103–20; Simons, 1998: 80–94.

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  The Lore of the Playground: One hundred years of children's games, rhymes and traditions

  Figures in a Bygone Landscape: A Lancashire Childhood (London: Methuen, 1986). Henderson. William. Notes on the Folk Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders (London: Longmans, 1866). Herefordshire Federation of Women's ...

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  Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America: The Interface between Print and Oral Traditions

  Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature’s interaction with, and influence on, oral traditions.

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  Cheap Print and the People: European Perspectives on Popular Literature

  This is the first volume to take a pan-European perspective, with each chapter detailing the experience of a particular country or region, offering the reader the opportunity to progress from the particular to a continent-wide overview.

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  The Penguin Classics New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

  This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-known discoveries, complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning.

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  Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America

  Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature s interaction with, and influence on, oral traditions."

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  A Dictionary of English Folklore

  This Dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format.An engrossing guide to ...

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  Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century

  ... 19 Plomer , Dictionary , 1668 to 1725 , pp . 155–56 . 20 John Nichols , Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century , 9 vols ( London : printed for the author ; by Nichols , Son , and Bentley , 1812–15 ) , VIII , 168n . 21 Plomer ...