Galoshins Remembered: ‘A penny was a lot in these days’

Galoshins’ was a seasonal folk drama learned orally and performed, mostly by boys, in people’s houses, up until the beginning of the 20th century. The drama took the form of a fight, sometimes with ‘swords’ and then a ‘doctor’ performed a comic turn in bringing the injured party back to life. These oral reminiscences were collected in the 1970s for the School of Scottish Studies Sound Archives from people in: Melrose, Morebattle, Hawick, Westruther, Biggar, Muirkirk, Kirkcowan, Newton Stewart, Armadale, Falkirk, Camelon, Dennyloanhead and Kippen.

Publisher NMS Enterprises Ltd – Publishing, co-published with the European Ethnological Research Centre, as part of the Flashbacks series, General Editor Alexander Fenton