Scope and Contents

The collection consists of ten volumes of index slips, divided into seven for mumming plays, one for disguising and two for morris.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External Documents section below.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a vast range of material relating to folk plays and related subjects, including books and booklets, journal articles, audio and video recordings, unpublished works such as theses, dissertations and essays, and some ephemera.The collection has been painstakingly assembled since the 1960s by Ron Shuttleworth who made it his aim to collect copies of everything that had been written on the subject of folk plays, and to provide access to the material to...