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Handsworth Sword Dancers
Image Index (IM2325)

1 of approx 29 results
Classmark

swl/Hands/1913

Class cat.

Sword dance - Longsword

Group

Handsworth Sword Dancers

People featured

Place

England : South Yorkshire : Sheffield : Handsworth

Date taken

1973?

Occasion

Boxing Day

Character names

clowns

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Instrumentation

concertina

Format

Photographic print

Tone

Black and white

Size

127x89

Related neg ref

D41

Info supplied

VWML

Photo acc no

12371

Copyright

EFDSS

Keywords

Sword-dance, long-sword-dance, clowns

Notes

Photographer

Cecil Sharp

Donor

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Catalogue link

Yes

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No

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Handsworth Sword Dancers

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Letter from Percy Nash (Neptune Film Company Limited) to Cecil Sharp (22 Jun 1914) re filming Handsworth sword dancers
Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at VWML) (CJS1/12/14/1/2)

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Date collected

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England : Yorkshire : Handsworth

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Roud No

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Child No

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EFDSS Archive

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- CJS1/12/14/1 Correspondence with Percy Nash
- CJS1/12/14/1/2 Letter from Percy Nash (Neptune Film Company Limited) to Cecil Sharp (22 Jun 1914) re filming Handsworth sword dancers (This record)
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Letter from Matthias Parkin to Cecil Sharp (28 Dec 1912) re Sharp's enquiry about sword dancing
Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at VWML) (CJS1/8/2/7/4)

3 of approx 29 results
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Performer

Date collected

Place

England : Yorkshire : Woodhouse / England : Yorkshire : Handsworth

Collector

Roud No

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Manuscript

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Dance / Custom

Subtype

Sword Dance / Mummers Play

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Named Tune

Child No

Laws No

Notes

Reports no dancing at Woodhouse for twenty-five years but the Handsworth men were going about then. Old Woodhouse dancer, Alfred Wheeler, had told Parkin that Woodhouse dances had thirteen figures, two more than Handsworth.

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EFDSS Archive

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- CJS1/8/2/7 Letters
- CJS1/8/2/7/4 Letter from Matthias Parkin to Cecil Sharp (28 Dec 1912) re Sharp's enquiry about sword dancing (This record)
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Letter from Percy Nash (Neptune Film Company Limited) to Cecil Sharp (2 Apr 1914) re filming Handsworth sword dancers
Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at VWML) (CJS1/12/14/1/1)

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England : Yorkshire : Handsworth

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Child No

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Notes

Annotation by Maud Karpeles: "The film seems to have disappeared"

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EFDSS Archive

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- CJS1/12/14/1 Correspondence with Percy Nash
- CJS1/12/14/1/1 Letter from Percy Nash (Neptune Film Company Limited) to Cecil Sharp (2 Apr 1914) re filming Handsworth sword dancers (This record)
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Letter from Cecil Sharp to Helen Browne (24 Jan 1913) re collecting sword dances at Winlaton and Handsworth
Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at VWML) (CJS1/12/2/12/6)

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Performer

Date collected

Place

England : County Durham : Winlaton / England : Yorkshire : Handsworth

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Roud No

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Child No

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Notes

Handwritten extracts from a letter, copied by A. H. Fox Strangways during the preparation of Sharp's biography

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EFDSS Archive

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- CJS1/12/2/12 Correspondence with Helen Browne
- CJS1/12/2/12/6 Letter from Cecil Sharp to Helen Browne (24 Jan 1913) re collecting sword dances at Winlaton and Handsworth (This record)
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Letter from Cecil Sharp to Maud Karpeles (22 Jan 1913) re judging performance, teaching, The English Review and collecting in York
Maud Karpeles Manuscript Collection (MK/3/26)

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Place

England : London : Uxbridge

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Roud No

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26

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Notes

4pp. Names mentioned: 'Charlie' [Charles Sharp], 'Helen' [Helen Karpeles], 'Miss Wilke' [Miss Dorette Wilkie], 'Wright' [Claude Wright], 'Maggie' [Maggie Muller], 'Dorothea' [Dorothea Sharp], Mrs. Suaniell[?]. Places mentioned: Chelsea Physical Training College, Yorkshire, Handsworth. Also mentions teaching 'Hunsdon House', 'Fain I Would' and 'Althea' and watching a longsword dance at Handsworth.

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EFDSS Archive

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- MK/3 Box 3
- MK/3/26 Letter from Cecil Sharp to Maud Karpeles (22 Jan 1913) re judging performance, teaching, The English Review and collecting in York (This record)
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Postcard from M. Parkin to Cecil Sharp (11 Jan 1913) re Sharp's enquiry about sword dancing
Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at VWML) (CJS1/8/2/1/10)

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Date collected

Place

England : Yorkshire : Woodhouse / England : Yorkshire : Handsworth

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Roud No

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Dance

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Sword Dance

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Child No

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Arrangements for a visit by Sharp.

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EFDSS Archive

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- CJS1/8/2/1 Places where sword dance was still performed
- CJS1/8/2/1/10 Postcard from M. Parkin to Cecil Sharp (11 Jan 1913) re Sharp's enquiry about sword dancing (This record)
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[Sword dancing]
Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at VWML) (CJS1/12/14/1/3)

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Date collected

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England : Yorkshire : Handsworth

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Roud No

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Child No

Laws No

Notes

Carbon copy. Notes by Cecil Sharp, presumably sent to the Neptune Film Company in response to Percy Nash's letter of 22 Jun 1914 (CJS1/12/14/1/2)

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EFDSS Archive

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- CJS1/12/14/1 Correspondence with Percy Nash
- CJS1/12/14/1/3 [Sword dancing] (This record)
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Postcard to Cecil Sharp (11 Jan 1913) re Sharp's enquiry about sword dancing
Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at VWML) (CJS1/8/2/1/11)

9 of approx 29 results
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Date collected

Place

England : Yorkshire : Woodhouse / England : Yorkshire : Handsworth

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Roud No

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Dance

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Sword Dance

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Child No

Laws No

Notes

Further arrangements for a visit by Sharp. List of railway departure times.

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EFDSS Archive

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- CJS1/8/2/1 Places where sword dance was still performed
- CJS1/8/2/1/11 Postcard to Cecil Sharp (11 Jan 1913) re Sharp's enquiry about sword dancing (This record)
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Handsworth Sword Dance Tunes : Napoleon's March
Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/10/2816A)

10 of approx 29 results
First Line

Performer

Date collected

Feb 1913

Place

England : Yorkshire : Darnall

Collector

Shaw, Mr.

Roud No

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FT 2816a

Format

Manuscript

Type

Dance / Custom

Subtype

Longsword Dance

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Music

Named Tune

Child No

Laws No

Notes

Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes p.2816a. Note by Cecil Sharp 'Sent me by Mr Shaw'

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Clare College, Cambridge

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Folk Tunes

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- CJS2/10 Folk tunes collected by Cecil Sharp
- CJS2/10/2816A Handsworth Sword Dance Tunes : Napoleon's March (This record)
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Handsworth Sword Dance Tunes : Our Soldiers
Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/10/2816C)

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Performer

Date collected

Feb 1913

Place

England : Yorkshire : Darnall

Collector

Shaw, Mr.

Roud No

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FT 2816c

Format

Manuscript

Type

Dance / Custom

Subtype

Longsword Dance

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Music

Named Tune

Child No

Laws No

Notes

Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes p.2816c

Author / Composer

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Repository

Clare College, Cambridge

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Folk Tunes

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- CJS2/10 Folk tunes collected by Cecil Sharp
- CJS2/10/2816C Handsworth Sword Dance Tunes : Our Soldiers (This record)
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