The Notes and Queries Folklore Column, 1849-1947
Subject Indexes
Published on 3. September 2021
Book
Hardback
155 pages
978-1-5275-7290-4 (ISBN)
Description
A major source for England's folklore heritage and vernacular culture is found in the Folklore Column in the periodical Notes and Queries which ran from 1849 to 1947. Previously, to locate material meant using each of the 15 General Indexes in turn. Instead, this book presents, for the first time, a consolidated index to the contents not only of the Folklore Column, but to other material of interest. Besides the index to Folklore entries itself with some 5,450 references alone, presented here are indexes to Nursery Rhymes, Phrases, Proverbs, Rhymes, Riddles, Songs and Ballads (1,722 titles are mentioned), Provincialisms, and Dialects. Overall, the Subject Indexes here contain in total 12,168 references. As such, this book presents the reader with ready access to a neglected corpus of material.
Reviews / Votes
"Miller's diligent work serves as a dowsing rod that, rightly used, can reveal hidden streams full of unsuspected folklore data."Jonathan RoperUniversity of Tartu, Estonia; Folklore, 133:2More details
Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5275-7290-4 (9781527572904)
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Person
Stephen Miller previously held a post at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and taught at the University of Vienna. He is a past student at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies at the University of Leeds, UK, having obtained his MA there. Later, he worked on the Tape-Recorded Survey of Yorkshire Speech at the College of Ripon and York St John, and he has also conducted ethnographic fieldwork on the Isle of Man. His research interests include the folklore and folk song of the Isle of Man, the Manx Language Revival, the Scottish folklorists the Rev. Walter Gregor and William George Black, and the historiography of the Folk-Lore Society. This has resulted in over 30 peer-reviewed articles on these topics, besides numerous other publications as part of public engagement and outreach on folklore topics. In 2020, he won the Reih Bleeaney Vanannan for lifetime achievement in Manx Studies.