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Thursday, October 13, 2011

MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: USEFUL RESEARCH SOURCES FOR FORTEANS

I belong to the Talking Folklore Yahoo Group and Stephen Miller posted the list of Notes and Queries publications below on September 27th 2011, which he has given me permission to reproduce here. I can testify that I have found useful stuff in them, eg the ancient Chinese submarine story I posted the other day. I also found some of the British Amphisbæna information in City Notes and Queries which covered the Manchester area.

Dear List,

As some of you may be aware, I am compiling an index to the folkloric material in N&Q, which is close to completion. I have become interested in the various country/regional versions of N&Q inspired by the periodical itself. At present, I am simply interested in knowing which English country/regional versions exist (with no promise about incorporation into a wider index, well, not at this stage). Using COPAC (www.copac.ac.uk) I have compiled the following list and I would be grateful for additions to the list:

Stephen





  • Advertiser Notes and Queries


  • Bedfordshire Notes and Queries


  • Berkshire Notes and Queries


  • Cheshire Notes and Queries


  • Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries


  • Devon Notes and Queries


  • East Anglian Fenland Notes and Queries


  • Gloucestershire Notes and Queries


  • Hampshire Notes and Queries


  • Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries


  • Lincolnshire Notes and Queries


  • Middlesex and Hertfordshire Notes and Queries


  • Norfolk and Norwich Notes and Queries


  • Northamptonshire Notes and Queries


  • Northern Notes and Queries: devoted to the antiquities of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Durham


  • Notes and Queries appearing in the Somerset County Herald during 1898


  • Notes and Queries for Bromsgrove and the district of central Worcestershire


  • Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset


  • Notes and Queries for Worcestershire


  • Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Notes and Queries


  • Science Gossip and Country Queries and Notes


  • Somerset Notes and Queries


  • Suffolk Notes and Queries


  • Sussex Notes and Queries


  • The Eastern Counties Collectanea: Notes and Queries on subjects relating to the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridge


  • The Kentish Note Book


  • Wandsworth Notes and Queries


  • Wirral Notes and Queries



On 6 October Stephen added Yorkshire Notes & Queries ed Charles Forshaw vols 1-5 1905-1909.

On October 11th he added:





  • City News, Notes and Queries


  • Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Notes


  • Manchester Notes and Queries


  • Notes & Queries concerning Evesham and the Four Shires


Frankly if you look through say a quarter of the above and find nothing I will eat my hat! Or collection of Fortean Times.

Rich

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