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75 SOHCA respondent 006/Mrs W.2 (b. 1916), p. 3.
76 P. Camporesi, The Magic Harvest: Food, Folklore and Society, London,
Polity, 1998, p. 186.
77 SOHCA, respondent 006/Mrs R.1 (b. 1912).
78 QA, FLWE, interviewee 64, p. 34.
79 E. Hall, Canary Girls and Stockpots, Luton, 1977, p. 16.
80 G. Foakes, My Part of the River, London, 1976, p. 22; R. Gamble, Chelsea
Child, London, Ariel, 1982, pp. 33, 184, 188–90, 192; H. Forrester, Liverpool
Miss, London and Glasgow, Collins, 1982, p. 15; D. Noakes, The Town
Beehive: A Young Girl’s Lot: Brighton 1910–34, Brighton, QueenSpark, 1980,
p. 65.
81 Foley, Child in the Forest, p. 253.
82 QA, FLWE, interviewee 156, p. 38.
83 C.G. Brown, Up-helly-aa: Custom, Culture and Community in Shetland,
Manchester, Mandolin, 1998, pp. 65–71.
84 Roberts noted the key role of his mother’s corner shop as a venue for gossip
about women’s respectability; R. Roberts, The Classic Slum, Harmondsworth,
Penguin, 1973, p. 43.
85 J. Seabrook, The Unprivileged, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1973, p. 72.
86 S.C. Williams, Religious Belief and Popular Culture in Southwark c. 1880–
1939, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. v.
87 Williams, p. 90.
88 D. Cressy, Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life-Cycle
in Tudor and Stuart England, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997,
pp. 197–229; Sykes, ‘Popular religion’, pp. 181–4; Williams, Religious Belief,
pp. 88–9, 96–7. This theme is extensively addressed in Elizabeth Roberts’ oral
testimony in CNWRS, SA.
89 Oral testimony in Shetland Archive SA/3/1/77/2.
90 Williams, Religious Belief, p. 104. See also Sykes, ‘Popular religion’,
pp. 95–298, and D. Clark, Between Pulpit and Pew: Folk Religion in a North
Yorkshire Fishing Village, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982.
91 L. Stanley and S. Wise, Breaking Out Again: Feminist Ontology and
Epistemology, London and New York, Routledge, 1993, pp. 110, 195.
92 QA, FLWE, interviewee 77, p. 13.
93 QA, FLWE, interviewee 342, p. 35.
94 Stories of this practice were recounted at the Ecclesiastical History Conference,
New College, Edinburgh, September 1999, by Dr William Griffith,
University of Wales at Bangor, and Professor Donald Meek, University of
Aberdeen.
95 Scannell, Mother Knew Best, p. 111.
96 QA, FLWE, interviewee 34, p. 11.
97 QA, FAM, interviewee QD3/100/FAM/23.
98 QA, FLWE, interviewee 240, p. 17.
99 Brown and Stephenson, ‘“Sprouting Wings”?’, pp. 22–3.
100 CNWRS, SA respondent Mr B.1.B (b. 1897), p. 63.
101 Quoted in McLeod, Class and Religion, p. 51.
102 QA, FLWE, interviewee 99, p. 17.
103 QA, FLWE, interviewees 142, p. 19; 77; 90 p. 34; 99.
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