Welsh folk customs (1959)

by Trefor M. Owen

Other authors: D. Dilwyn John (Preface)

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Welsh folk customs

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Original publication date

1959

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Wales, UK

St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, Wales, UK (as Welsh Folk Museum)

National Museum Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK (headquarters)

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The Welsh Folk Museum was established at St. Fagans in 1948.

Preface by D. Dilwyn John, director, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, February 1959.

This book was first published in 1959 as a short guide to an important part of the collections of the Welsh Folk Museum.

Foreword, August 1974.

The objects discussed in this handbook are so different from each other that it may escape attention that they have at least one thing in common, namely a link with a folk custom found in Wales.

Introduction.

The celebration of Christmastide, Y Gwyliau, has been observed throughout Europe from the earliest times.

Chapter I, The Christmas season.

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1st pub. 1959; 2nd ed., 1968; 3rd ed., 1974; reprinted 1978.

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English

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