| Description | Papers of Alex Helm, c1950-1970, comprising manuscript notebooks and working papers for the published works 'A Geographical Index of the Ceremonial Dance in Great Britain', 'English Ritual Drama, a Geographical Index', and 'The Chapbook Mummers' Plays'; typescript drafts for lectures and unpublished works; material for proposed publication on English traditional ceremonial costume, includes photographs; correspondence; collected source and published material; and offprints of related published works of co-authors. |
| AdminHistory | Alex Helm was a writer and Fellow of the Folklore Society. Starting in 1955, he collected together material relating to British folk drama, which he hoped to publish as a complete geographical index. Later, joined by Dr E C Cawte and N Peacock, Helm produced the first part of this work, 'A Geographical Index of the Ceremonial Dance in Great Britain', in 1960, and the second, 'English Ritual Drama, a Geographical Index', in 1967. |