Voices and Views Case

These ‘braids’ form part of a Morris Dancers ‘Greensleeves’ costume. Morris Dancing has been a part of English traditions from as early as 1448. It normally takes place on May Day each year and is part of Spring celebrations. It involves rhythmic stepping with sticks, handkerchiefs and bells.

Viz Magazine was first published in December 1979 and parodies a number of children’s comics such as The Beano and The Dandy but with a much more adult tone. Alongside its profanity and toilet humour The Viz sends up celebrities and tabloid newspapers. In the 1990s Farmer Palmer and his son Jethro appeared in Viz magazine portraying every stereotype about farmers their creator, Simon Thorpe, could imagine.

“I’ve Got a Brand New Combine Harvester” was a 1976 #1 hit song for the ‘Scrumpy and Western’ band, The Wurzels. This record was donated by Jonathan Durning who was a huge fan of the song, and as a result attended a local fete in 1976 with a homemade combine harvester model made by his father.

This booklet about the model village at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, dates from the 1950s. The booklet is entitled ‘Gulliver in the Cotswolds: The story of the fascinating Miniature Village at the Old New Inn Bourton on the Water’. The model village at Bourton-on-the-Water was built in 1936–1937 and is still open today. It even has a model of the model village. Over the years, a variety of souvenir ephemera was produced, including guidebooks, postcards and pottery mementos.

Gulliver’s Travels is a four-part prose travelogue, narrated by the fictitious persona of Lemuel Gulliver, who tells the story of his extensive global voyages, the places he has been and the people (and other creatures) he met. The satire was first published in 1726 under the title Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World ‘By Lemuel Gulliver’.