Galoshins Remembered : 'A Penny Was a Lot in These Days' Paperback / softback
by Emily B. Lyle
Part of the Flashbacks series
Paperback / softback
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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages, 35 black/white photographs
- Publisher:NMSE - Publishing Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2011
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- ISBN:9781905267569
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages, 35 black/white photographs
- Publisher:NMSE - Publishing Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781905267569
