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Hilda Ellis Davidson

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Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson (born Hilda Roderick Ellis, 1 October 1914 – January 2006) was an English antiquarian and academic, writing in particular on Germanic paganism and Celtic paganism. [1]

34 relations: Antiquarian, Bebington, Biography, Birkenhead, Birkenhead Park School, BNET, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Carmen Blacker, Celtic polytheism, Change ringing, Cheshire, Churchwarden, England, Folklore, Germanic mythology, Germanic paganism, Jacqueline Simpson, John Lindow, Katharine Mary Briggs, Kent, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, Maiden and married names, Mythology, Newnham College, Cambridge, Norse mythology, Old Norse religion, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Research fellow, Routledge, Royal Holloway, University of London, Society of Antiquaries of London, The Folklore Society, Wirral Peninsula.

Antiquarian

An antiquarian or antiquary (from the Latin: antiquarius, meaning pertaining to ancient times) is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past.

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Bebington

Bebington is a small town and electoral ward within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England.

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Biography

A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.

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Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England.

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Birkenhead Park School

Birkenhead Park School is a co-educational 11-16 secondary school with academy status located in Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula in England.

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BNET

BNET was an online magazine dedicated to issues of business management.

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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is a Portuguese institution under private law and of general public utility, perpetual in nature, with its statutory purposes spanning the arts, beneficence, science, and education.

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Carmen Blacker

Carmen Blacker FBA, OST, OBE (13 July 1924 – 13 July 2009) was a British scholar of Japanese language.

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Celtic polytheism

Celtic polytheism, commonly known as Celtic paganism, comprises the religious beliefs and practices adhered to by the Iron Age people of Western Europe now known as the Celts, roughly between 500 BCE and 500 CE, spanning the La Tène period and the Roman era, and in the case of the Insular Celts the British and Irish Iron Age.

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Change ringing

Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a controlled manner to produce variations in their striking sequences.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Churchwarden

A churchwarden is a lay official in a parish or congregation of the Anglican Communion, usually working as a part-time volunteer.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Folklore

Folklore is the expressive body of culture shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group.

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Germanic mythology

Germanic mythology consists of the body of myths native to the Germanic peoples.

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Germanic paganism

Germanic religion refers to the indigenous religion of the Germanic peoples from the Iron Age until Christianisation during the Middle Ages.

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Jacqueline Simpson

Jacqueline Simpson (born 1930) is a British researcher and author on folklore and legends.

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John Lindow

John Lindow (born 1946) is a professor emeritus (University of California, Berkeley) specializing in Scandinavian medieval studies and folklore.

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Katharine Mary Briggs

Katharine Mary Briggs (8 November 1898 – 15 October 1980) was a British folklorist and writer, who wrote The Anatomy of Puck, the four-volume A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language, and various other books on fairies and folklore.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge

Lucy Cavendish College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge which admits only postgraduates and undergraduates aged 21 or over.

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Maiden and married names

When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of his or her spouse, that name replaces the person's birth surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name (birth name is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted by a person upon marriage.

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Mythology

Mythology refers variously to the collected myths of a group of people or to the study of such myths.

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Newnham College, Cambridge

Newnham College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Norse mythology

Norse mythology is the body of myths of the North Germanic people stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period.

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Old Norse religion

Old Norse religion developed from early Germanic religion during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic people separated into a distinct branch of the Germanic peoples.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Research fellow

A research fellow is an academic research position at a university or a similar research institution, usually for academic staff or faculty members.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Royal Holloway, University of London

Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Society of Antiquaries of London

The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London (a building owned by the UK government), and is a registered charity.

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The Folklore Society

The Folklore Society (FLS) is a national association in the United Kingdom for the study of folklore.

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Wirral Peninsula

Wirral, also known as The Wirral, is a peninsula in northwest England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Ellis_Davidson

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