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Tag Archives: folklore
#FolkloreThursday meets #NationalStorytellingWeek
Today’s #FolkloreThursday theme is favourite fairy tales, in honour of #NationalStorytellingWeek! We were absolutely spoiled for choice with this theme, as we have such a wonderful collection of beautifully illustrated children’s stories. To start, a Walter Crane illustration for Sleeping … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tales, folklore, illustration
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#FolkloreThursday : Traditional Leicestershire Food
For this week’s #FolkloreThursday #food theme we turned to the Leicestershire and Rutland Magazine to see what local traditions there are surrounding mealtimes, cooking and eating. First we found an account of the hearty fare served to the workers during … Continue reading
Posted in FolkloreThursday, Rare Books
Tagged folk song, folklore, food, Leicester, Leicestershire, Tradition
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Folklore Thursday 18/01/2018
What an amazing theme for #FolkloreThursday this week! Requests for #clothing lore makes for the perfect opportunity to highlight this wonderful poster set produced by the International Wool Secretariat in 1954, titled ‘Costumes of Europe in Wool’. Each beautifully illustrated … Continue reading
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Tagged Clothing, folklore, National Costume, Tradition, Wool
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Folklore Thursday 11/01/2018
As collections of European folk songs and poems, books on Nursery Rhymes became popular during the golden age of children’s literature in the mid-nineteenth century but many of the rhymes themselves are much older. Full of working-class imagery and trades … Continue reading
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Tagged Children's literature, folklore, Nursery Rhymes, work, Working-class imagery
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Folklore Thursday 04/01/2018
To kick off this year’s #FolkloreThursday then we have the theme of #Beginnings and what better way to start than by having a brief foray into one of the founding myths of the city of Leicester. Browsing through our local … Continue reading
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Tagged folklore, King Lear, Leicester, literature, Shakespeare
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