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Percy Maylam´s The Kent Hooden Horse
Richard Maylam
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Description for Percy Maylam´s The Kent Hooden Horse
Paperback. A special centenary edition of Percy Maylam's classic book with a background history of hoodening Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESK; ASZ; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 236 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
In 1909, Canterbury antiquarian Percy Maylam published his research and remarkable photographs of the fascinating Kent tradition of the hooden horse. He caught the custom in its last traditional phase, but his work inspired a revival after the Second World War. Percy Maylam also published a famous essay on the Kent custom of Gavelkind when this was abolished by Act of Parliament just before the First World War. Percy's great-nephew Richard Maylam has long-wished for these two works to be reprinted. For this special edition Richard has unearthed additional, unpublished photographs and written a biographical essay on his great-uncle. Together ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752449975
SKU
V9780752449975
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99-50
About Richard Maylam
Dr GEOFF DOEL has thirty years’ experience of researching and lecturing on folklore for the universities of Kent & Sussex, Birkbeck and Goldsmiths Colleges and the City Lit. He has a PhD on Thomas Hardy and alongside Fran Doel MA, has lectured extensively in adult education at various universities on literature, medieval and traditional culture. Together, they are the authors ... Read more
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