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  1. Where is the Shearer of Glenshee buried?

    Recorded in 1969: Belle Stewart tells the tale of the burial of “the Shearer of Glenshee” – one of many recordings of stories & songs by Belle Stewart on the Tobar an Dualchais / Kist o Riches website

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    tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/3

    #Scottish #literature #travellers #folklore #folksong

  2. Belle Stewart (1906–1997) – singer, storyteller, tradition-bearer – was born #OTD, 18 July, in a bow tent on the banks of the Tay at Caputh, near Blairgowrie. She ranks alongside Jeannie Robertson in the roll of the finest Scots ballad-singers.

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    youtube.com/watch?v=v0sMwlevTMU

    #Scottish #literature #travellers #folklore #folksong

  3. I normally don't share YouTube videos (because fuck YouTube), but this one feels to important not to: youtu.be/mWkF2ZwpRyc

    "Why the UK crushed the traveller convoys" read by Dicky Dread from the book he is writing
    “The conflict was never simply about caravans or festivals. It became a wider struggle over visibility, land and who gets to live outside conventional systems.”

    In this video:
    – The origins of the traveller convoy movement
    – Stonehenge, Beanfield and state confrontation
    – How free festivals, ravers and travellers became linked
    – Why alternative living became politically controversial

    #rave #travellers #UK #UnitedKigdom #offGridLife #vanLife #festivals #caravan #convoy #Beanfield #AlternativeLiving #AlternativeLife