THOMS, William John (1803–85) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2 ed.)
...THOMS, William John ( 1803–85 ) British antiquary who wrote versions of many old chapbook stories which were published for children in the mid-19th cent. by Joseph Cundall . Many of them appeared under the title Gammer Gurton’s Story Books . Thoms, who was clerk and deputy librarian to the House of Lords, founded the journal Notes and Queries , and is credited with having invented the term ‘folklore’, which he used in an article in the Athenaeum on 22 August, 1846...
Thoms, William John Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
..., William John ( 1803–1885 ), British antiquary and author of children's versions of old chapbook stories. Written under the pseudonym Ambrose Merton, they include The Old Story Books of England ( 1845 ), containing the stories of Bevis, Guy of Warwick, Robin Hood, and so forth; Gammer Gurton's Famous Histories ( 1846 ); and Gammer Gurton's Pleasant Stories ( 1848 ). Thoms also edited a number of volumes, including Early English Prose Romances ( 1827–1828 ) and The History of Reynard the Fox ( 1844 ). In the Athenaeum he reviewed The Interlude...
Thoms, William John (1803–85) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
..., William John ( 1803–85 ) Antiquary ; successively clerk and deputy librarian to the House of Lords . He wrote The Book of the Court ( 1838 ), and edited a number of volumes including Early Prose Romances ( 1827–8 ) and The History of Reynard the Fox ( 1844 ) for the Percy Society . He was secretary of the Camden Society ( 1838–73 ). In 1846 , in an article in the Athenaeum headed ‘Folk Lore’, he introduced this term into the English language. Encouraged by Charles Dilke he founded Notes and Queries in 1849 ....
William John Thoms
Labour History Quick reference
John L. Halstead
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...labour history, is relevant. Cooperative institutions also were labour self‐help organizations. There is no complete modern general history, but see G. D. H. Cole ( 1889–1959 ), A Century of Co‐operation ( 1944 ). Women's cooperation is treated in Jean Gaffin and David Thoms , Caring and Sharing: The Centenary History of the Co‐operative Women's Guild ( 1983 ). The political institutions of labour belong to the late 19th century and beyond. The first to be created were the socialist societies, which joined with the trade unions in the formation of...
Folklore, Customs, and Civic Ritual Quick reference
Charles Phythian-Adams
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...Customs, and Civic Ritual Folklore ‘Folklore’—a term coined in 1846 by William John Thoms to describe the ‘lore of the people’—is most usefully thought of as comprising that body of pre‐ (or nowadays ‘non‐’) scientific beliefs through which humanity seeks to explain (and, when need arises, to exploit) its place in relation to the forces of nature and the supernatural. The antiquity of such beliefs is not in doubt, but it is difficult precisely to prove their prehistoric origins in the way so much beloved of the earlier folklorists, beyond...
R.A. Simpson
Bevis of Hampton
John Capreolus
Quarto
Notes and Queries
London Magazine
William of Occam
Al Alvarez
Folklore Society
New Lines
Francis Douce
William Carlos Williams
Kingsley Amis
