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A major source for England’s folklore heritage and vernacular culture is found in the Folklore Column in the periodical Notes and Queries which ran from 1849 to 1947. Previously, to locate material meant using each of the 15 General Indexes in turn. Instead, this book presents, for the first time, a consolidated index to the contents not only of the Folklore Column, but to other material of interest. Besides the index to Folklore entries itself with some 5,450 references alone, presented here are indexes to Nursery Rhymes, Phrases, Proverbs, Rhymes, Riddles, Songs and Ballads (1,722 titles are mentioned), Provincialisms, and Dialects. Overall, the Subject Indexes here contain in total 12,168 references. As such, this book presents the reader with ready access to a neglected corpus of material.

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Stephen Miller previously held a post at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and taught at the University of Vienna. He is a past student at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies at the University of Leeds, UK, having obtained his MA there. Later, he worked on the Tape-Recorded Survey of Yorkshire Speech at the College of Ripon and York St John, and he has also conducted ethnographic fieldwork on the Isle of Man. His research interests include the folklore and folk song of the Isle of Man, the Manx Language Revival, the Scottish folklorists the Rev. Walter Gregor and William George Black, and the historiography of the Folk-Lore Society. This has resulted in over 30 peer-reviewed articles on these topics, besides numerous other publications as part of public engagement and outreach on folklore topics. In 2020, he won the Reih Bleeaney Vanannan for lifetime achievement in Manx Studies.

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