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Contents: Folk Drama | Folklore | Tristan da Cunha | Open Access | Electricity Supply

Folk Drama

• Manning's Mummers' Plays
  in: Percy Manning: The Man Who Collected Oxfordshire, ed. by Michael Heaney
  Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78491-528-5, pp.173-219   [Full Text]
• Postscript to Mrs Ewing and the St Kitts Mummies' Plays
  Folklore, April 2015, Vol.126, No.1, pp.89-94    [Full Text]
• Nottingham's Owd 'Oss Mummers and their scrapbooks
  in: 2nd Mummers Unconvention Symposium, Bath, 16th November 2012, ed. by P.Harrop, pp.82-98    [Full Text - 2.24MB]
• Mummies and masquerades: English and Caribbean connections
  [with Caspar James]
  in: 1st Mummers Unconvention Symposium, Bath, 18th November 2011, ed. by P.Harrop, pp.58-73    [Full Text - 1.67MB]
• Master Mummers: The Dynamic Folk Play Website
  1st Mummers Unconvention Symposium, Bath, 18th November 2011    [Poster - 828kB]
• A Victorian Impression of Mummers in 1377
  URL: http://www.mastermummers.org/articles/Mummers1377.htm, 2009
• Mapping the Uncharted Territory of Folk Drama
  Conference on: 'Sites of Performance: Mapping/Theatre/History', University of Nottingham, 2-4 April 2009   [Abstract] [Introduction] [Case Study]
• A Painting of Mummers at Chilworth
  URL: http://www.mastermummers.org/articles/Chilworth-Mummers.htm, 2008
• "No Vain Sacrifice": An Appreciation of Reginald Tiddy
  URL: http://www.mastermummers.org/articles/Tiddy.htm, 2008
• Do you recognise this costume?
  English Dance & Song, 2008, Vol.70, No.4, pp.18-19    [Full Text]
• Reviews - Books: 'In Comes I': Performance, Memory and Landscape, by Mike Pearson
  Folk Music Journal, 2008, Vol.9, No.3, pp.432-433    [Full Text]
• "This is a Mummers' Play I Wrote": Modern Compositions and their Implications
  in: Border-Crossing: Mumming in Cross-Border and Cross-Community Contexts, ed. by A.D.Buckley, C.Mac Cárthaigh, S.Ó Catháin & S.Mac Mathuna
  Dundalk, Dundalgan Press, 2007, ISBN 0-85221-147-7, pp.202-233
• Electronic ERD: An Index to English Folk Drama
  [Online editor with compilers E.C.Cawte, A.Helm & N.Peacock]
  URL: www.mastermummers.org/erd/index.htm, 2007
• Folk Play Scripts Explorer
  URL: www.mastermummers.org/scripts/explorer.htm, 2007
• 'Plough Bullocks' and other Plough Monday Customs in the Nottingham Area, 1800-1920
  Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, 2005, Vol.109, pp.127-137    [Full Text]
• Correspondence: Cropwell Ploughboys' Costume
  [with Bill Brown]
  Traditional Drama Forum, Oct.2005, No.13,    [Full Text]
• Letters: A Black and White Issue?
  EDS English Dance and Song, Autumn.2005, Vol.67, No.3, pp.31-32    [Full Text]
• Reviews - Electronic Resources: The James Madison Carpenter Collection Online Catalogue
  Folk Music Journal, 2004, Vol.8, No.4, pp.545-546
• D.H.Lawrence and the Guysers
  Traditional Drama Forum, Sep.2003, No.8    [Full Text]
• Folk Drama Studies Today: The International Traditional Drama Conference 2002
  [Edited with Eddie Cass]
  Sheffield, Traditional Drama Research Group, 2003, ISBN 0-9508152-3-3
• "This is a Mummers' Play I Wrote": Modern Compositions and their Implications
  Conference on 'Mumming Traditions in Cross-Border and Cross-Community Contexts', Derry, 9-13 June 2003
  Ulster Studies in Irish and Celtic, in press    [Full Text]
• The Truro Cordwainers' Play: a 'New' 18th-Century Christmas Play
  Folklore, April 2003, Vol.114, No.1, pp.53-73    [Full Text]
• Who is the Guy on the Left?: An Unexpected Twist to a 19th-century Mummers' Illustration
  Traditional Drama Forum, Jan.2003, No.6    [Full Text]
• Textual Analysis of English Quack Doctor Plays: Some New Discoveries
  in: Folk Drama Studies Today: The International Traditional Drama Conference 2002, ed. by E.Cass & P.Millington
  Sheffield, Traditional Drama Research Group, 2003, ISBN 0-9508152-3-3, pp.97-132    [PDF Download - 841kB]
• Book Reviews: The Lancashire Pace-Egg Play, by Eddie Cass
  Folklore, Oct.2002, Vol.113, No.2, pp.273-274
• The Origins and Development of English Folk Plays
  PhD Thesis, University of Sheffield, May 2002    [Extended Abstract] [Full text PDF Download - 2.7MB]
• The Cropwell Ploughboy's Costume of 1893
  Traditional Drama Forum, Jan.2002, No.4    [Full Text]
• Doctor Peter Lamb - A Mystery Solved
  Traditional Drama Forum, Oct.2001, No.3    [Full Text]
• Historical Database of Folk Play Scripts
  URL: http://www.folkplay.info/Texts.htm, 1999-2004
• Bibliography of Nottinghamshire Folk Plays and Related Customs
  URL: http://www.folkplay.info/Notts/NottsBib.htm, 1999
• Mrs Ewing and the Textual Origin of the St Kitts Mummies' Play
  Folklore, 1996, Vol.107, pp.77-89
• Correspondence : 'The Ploughboy and the Plough Play' by Alun Howkins and Linda Merricks in Journal, 6.2(1991), 187-208, and Correspondence from Beth Shaw in Journal, 6.4(1993), 506-07
  Folk Music Journal, 1995, Vol.7, No.1, pp.71-72    [Full Text]
• Plough Monday in and around the City of Nottingham
  Annual Conference of the Folk Life Society, University of Nottingham, September 1992,    [Full Text]
• Obituary: Maurice Willmore Barley : 19th Aug.1909 to 23rd June 1991
  Folklore, 1992, Vol.103, No.1, pp.108-109
• "Où se trouve ce Jeu de Mummers?"
  Roomer, 1989, Vol.7, No.3, pp.29-33
• Mystery History : The Origins of British Mummers' Plays
  American Morris Newsletter, Nov./Dec.1989, Vol.13, No.3, pp.9-16    [Full Text]
• The Problems of Analysing Folk Play Cast Lists using Numerical Methods
  Traditional Drama Studies, 1988, Vol.2, pp.30-44
  [First presented as a conference paper at Traditional Drama 1978]
• Possible Origins of the Name 'Tipteers' or 'Tipteerers'
  Roomer, 1986, Vol.6, No.6, pp.57-58
• A New Look at English Folk Play Costumes
  Traditional Drama 1985 : The 8th Annual Conference on Traditional Drama Studies, University of Sheffield, 12th Oct.1985    [Full Text]
• August Hartmann's 'Folk Plays Collected in Bavaria and Austria-Hungary': A Summary
  Roomer, 1984, Vol.4, No.1, pp.5-6
• Surveys through Newspapers: Traditional Drama Research Group - Research Guide 4
  [with Derek Schofield and Dave Bathe]
  Roomer, 1985, Vol.5, No.1, pp.3-6
• Research Guide No.1: Questions to Ask
  Sheffield, Traditional Drama Research Group, 1983
• 'PLAYGRAPHS' - A Computer Program to Aid the Plotting of Play Structures
  Roomer, 1982, Vol.2, No.4, pp.25-26
• M.W.Barley's Classification of Plough Plays
  Roomer, 1982, Vol.2, No.1, pp.5-7
• Graphs for Visualising the Structures of Folk Plays
  Roomer, 1980, Vol.1, No.2, pp.8-10
• An Interim List of Nottinghamshire Folk Plays and Related Customs
  Long Eaton, P.T.Millington, 1980
  Reprinted: Sheffield, Traditional Drama Research Group, 1984
• The Origins of Plough Monday
  Traditional Drama '79, One Day Conference, University of Sheffield, 20th Oct.1979    [Full Text]
• P.T.Millington Collection, 232 College Street, Long Eaton, Nottingham, NG10 4GW
  Copies: Local Studies Library, Nottingham Central Library, Angel Row, Nottingham
  Archives, University of Nottingham
  Archives, Institute of Dialect & Folk Life Studies, University of Leeds
  Archives, National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield.

Contents: Folk Drama | Folklore | Tristan da Cunha | Open Access | Electricity Supply

Other Folklore

• Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway: Folklore and Customs
  URL: http://www.nottsheritagegateway.org.uk/themes/folklore.htm,
  Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, 2008
• Folklore on the Internet. Asset? Liability? Opportunity? Threat?
  Seminar presented at NATCECT, University of Sheffield, December 2003   [Seminar Notes]
• Chain Letters to Nature
  Australian Folklore, 1996, Vol.11, pp.224-226
• Tiger Miscellany: A Collection of Folklore Items from the Tiger Newsletter
  Long Eaton, Traditions at the Tiger, 1995, 20pp.    [Full Text]

Contents: Folk Drama | Folklore | Tristan da Cunha | Open Access | Electricity Supply

Tristan da Cunha

• The Wreck of the Mabel Clark
  Tristan da Cunha Newsletter, 2019, No.64, pp.32-35
• Tristan's Whalers, Part 2: The New London Connection
  Tristan da Cunha Newsletter, 2018, No.63, pp.40-42
• Tristan's Whalers, Part 1: New Bedford Crews
  Tristan da Cunha Newsletter, 2018, No.62, pp.42-45
• Tristan da Cunha and the Original "Powder Monkey Jim"
  Folk Music Journal, 2015, Vol.10, No.5, pp.575-591   [Full Text]
• The Battle of Tristan da Cunha
  Tristan da Cunha Newsletter, 2015, No.57, pp.24-26
• It's Tristan, but not as we know it
  Tristan da Cunha Newsletter, 2014, No.54, pp.20-22
• Hunting the Mysterious Okalolies
  Tristan da Cunha Newsletter, 2011, No.49, pp.34-35    [Full Text]
• Little Powder Monkey Jim Revisited: An insight into a traditional Tristan da Cunha Folk Song
  Tristan da Cunha Newsletter, 2010, No.47, pp.21-23    [Full Text]

Contents: Folk Drama | Folklore | Tristan da Cunha | Open Access | Electricity Supply

Material on Open Access to Research

• Open-Access Repositories Worldwide, 2005–2012: Past Growth, Current Characteristics, and Future Possibilities
  [with Stephen Pinfield, J.Salter, P.A.Bath, B.Hubbard, J.H.S.Anders, A.Hussain]
  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2014, [in press]    [Full Text]
• Counting on OpenDOAR
  24/7 Presentation, Open Repositories 2013, Charlottetown, 8-11 July 2013   [Full text]
• Compliance with Funders' Mandates - FACT
  [with Jane H.Smith, Azhar Hussain, & Bill Hubbard]
  Open Repositories 2013, Charlottetown, 8-11 July 2013   [Full text]
• SHERPA/FACT - Funders and Authors Compliance Tool
  URL: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/fact/, 2013
• Developing SHERPA/RoMEO's role in improving open access
  Mötesplats Open Access 2012, Norrköping, Sweden, 14 March 2012   [Full text]
• SHERPA/RoMEO API lubricates the CRIS - Repository Interface
  Poster Presentation, OAI7, Geneva, 23 June 2011   [Full text
• SHERPA/RoMEO - Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
  URL: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/, 2006-2013
• OpenDOAR - Directory of Open Access Repositories
  URL: www.opendoar.org/, 2006-2012
• SHERPA/ROMEO Journals Beta 3.6
  [with Jane H. Smith, Azhar Hussain, & Bill Hubbard]
  Poster Presentation, Open Repositories 2011, Austin, 8 June 2011   [Full text]
• RoMEO and International Partnerships
  [with Jane H. Smith, Azhar Hussain, & Bill Hubbard]
  Poster Presentation, Open Repositories 2011, Austin, 8 June 2011   [Full text]
• SHERPA/RoMEO API lubricates the CRIS - Repository Interface
  Poster Presentation, OAI7, Geneva, 23 June 2011   [Full text]
• Mobile PIMS Statistics
  Technical challenge entry, Dev8D 2011, London, 17 February 2011   [Full text]
• Sometimes, I just want to count things
  Lightning Talk, Dev8D 2011, London, 16 February 2011   [Full text]
• Major Improvement to the ROMEO Service
  [with Jane H. Smith]
  Poster Presentation, Open Repositories 2010, Madrid, 6 July 2010   [Full text]
• RoMEO Service & Developments
  [with Jane H. Smith]
  JISC Conference 2010, London, 12-13 April 2010   [Full text]
• Más de 1000 repositorios a su disposición OpenDOAR y ROAR
  IX Worksop REBIUN, Salamanca, 2-3 Oct.2009   [Full text]
• Quantitative Study of the Impact of Research Funders' Open Access Mandates
  Poster Presentation: Open Repositories 2009, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, 18th-21st May 2009   [Full text]
• OpenDOAR and ROAR
  RSP Repository Services Day, University of Bath, 15th January 2009   [Full text]
• Repository Statistics
  RSP Summer School, Thornton Manor, Cheshire, 18th-20th June 2008   [Full text]
• Welcome to the Open Access Repository World!
  Repository Launch Event, University of Glamorgan, 22nd May 2008   [Full text]
• OpenDOAR and ROAR
  RSP Repository Services Day, University of Nottingham, 23rd April 2008   [Full text]
• Version Policies and the OpenDOAR Polices Tool
  Versions Identification Workshop, London, 22nd April 2008   [Full text]
• RoMEO, JULIET & OpenDOAR: Services that can enhance your repository
  JISC Repositories & Preservation Programme Meeting, Bristol, 28th November 2007   [Full text]
• SHERPA: Din guide til det åpne landskapet
  "Jag trivs bäst i öppna landskap" - en konferanse om åpne publiseringsarkiv og Open Access, Oslo, 31.oktober 2007   [Full text]
• Current Challenges for Institutional Repository Administrators
  Reaping the Rewards - East Midlands Event about Digital Repositories, University of Derby, 17th May 2007   [Full text]
• At the Event: EPrints 3 Pre-Launch Briefing
  [with William J. Nixon]
  Ariadne, Issue 50, January 2007   [Full text]
• Open Access Repositories: Technical considerations
  SHERPA Roadshow, University of Exeter, 23rd January 2007   [Full text]
• Moving Forward with the OpenDOAR Directory
  8th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems, Bergen, 11th-13th May 2006   [Full text]

Contents: Folk Drama | Folklore | Tristan da Cunha | Open Access | Electricity Supply

Material for the Electricity Supply Industry

• Key to identifying sources of C.E.G.B. reports from their numbers
  [with H.M. Godley]
  Report: MID/SSD/85/0063/N/IS, Central Electricity Generating Board, Department of Scientific Services, Nottingham, 1986
• Glossary of power station terms in English, German, French, Swedish and Italian.
  [with S.A. Coupe]
  Report: MID/SSD/84/0067/N/IS, Central Electricity Generating Board, Department of Scientific Services, Nottingham, 1984
• Welding of chromium-molybdenum-vanadium-steels : a selective bibliography, 1976 - June 1979
  C.E. bibliography 257.1, Central Electricity Generating Board, London, 1980

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