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Galoshins Remembered: 'A Penny was a lot in these Days'

Emily B. Lyle

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Description:'Galoshins' was a seasonal folk drama learned orally and performed, mostly by boys, in people's houses. They were rewarded with food or pennies. It took place on New Year's Eve ('Old Year's Night') or on Hallowe'en in central and southern Scotland at the very end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. The drama took the form of a fight, sometimes with 'swords', and then a 'doctor' performed a comic turn in bringing the injured party back to life. These oral reminiscences, gathered for the first time in book form, were collected in the 1970s for the School of Scottish Studies Sound Archives, University of Edinburgh.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Galoshins Remembered: 'A Penny was a lot in these Days'. To get started finding Galoshins Remembered: 'A Penny was a lot in these Days', you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 176

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Publisher: NMSE - Publishing Ltd

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ISBN: 1905267568

Description: 'Galoshins' was a seasonal folk drama learned orally and performed, mostly by boys, in people's houses. They were rewarded with food or pennies. It took place on New Year's Eve ('Old Year's Night') or on Hallowe'en in central and southern Scotland at the very end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. The drama took the form of a fight, sometimes with 'swords', and then a 'doctor' performed a comic turn in bringing the injured party back to life. These oral reminiscences, gathered for the first time in book form, were collected in the 1970s for the School of Scottish Studies Sound Archives, University of Edinburgh.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Galoshins Remembered: 'A Penny was a lot in these Days'. To get started finding Galoshins Remembered: 'A Penny was a lot in these Days', you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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