Wille Brunk Papers

Description

This series consists of correspondence, research papers and teaching items created and collected by Wille Brunk during his time as Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies.

Biography or history

Wille Brunk was a Swedish folklorist who studied at the Institute for Dialect and Folklore Research at Uppsala, Sweden. He was appointed Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) in January 1966. As such, he not only had teaching commitments, but was required to contribute to the fieldwork and research activities of the Institute. He appears to have retained his position at the Institute until 1968.

System of arrangement

The series has been arranged in the following subseries:

- Correspondence

- Fieldwork and Research

- Teaching Items

Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

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Related material

Papers created and collected by Wille Brunk are also held in the Folk Life File. Diagrams produced with Stewart Sanderson for the 1967 Traditional Farm Buildings Excursion are held at LAVC/FLF/2/3/2. Papers relating to his beastings research (other than those held at LAVC/STA/2/2/2) are held at LAVC/FLF/3/8/1. Information on Swedish grave houses supplied by Brunk is held at LAVC/FLF/5/5.


A number of images by Wille Brunk are included in the LAVC Photographic Collection:


Photograph of a stile at Club Nook Farm near Drebley (North Yorkshire): LAVC/PHO/P0022.


Views of Great Fryup Dale and Fairy Cross Plain (North Yorkshire): LAVC/PHO/P0048 -0050.


Photographs of vernacular architecture, including cruck-framed buildings and cow byres:

- LAVC/PHO/P0114 -0119

- LAVC/PHO/P0126 -0172

- LAVC/PHO/P0272

- LAVC/PHO/P0339 -0343

- LAVC/PHO/P0350 -0351

- LAVC/PHO/P0365.


Photographs of horse equipment:

- LAVC/PHO/P0504

- LAVC/PHO/P0507 -0508

- LAVC/PHO/P0514 -0517

- LAVC/PHO/P0519.


Photographs of Dales Ponies and Cleveland Bay Horses: LAVC/PHO/P0531 - 0539.


Photographs of blacksmiths' shops at Danby and Roxby (North Yorkshire): LAVC/PHO/P0544 -0573.


Photographs of dry stone walls around Helmsley (North Yorkshire): LAVC/PHO/P0983 -0985.


Photographs of horse ploughs: LAVC/PHO/P1136 -1138.


Photographs of the remains of an old Wolds Wagon: LAVC/PHO/P1201 -1202.


Photograph of a cheese cutter: LAVC/PHO/P1507.


Photograph of a Swedish gravehouse: LAVC/PHO/P1618.


Photograph of the Bay Horse Inn(?) at Great Broughton (North Yorkshire): LAVC/PHO/P1886.


Slides of the landscape around Hinderwell and Helmsley (including dry stone walls and a drover's road), and of examples of vernacular architecture at the Ryedale Folk Museum, are held at LAVC/PHO/S702 -706; LAVC/PHO/S710 -711; and LAVC/PHO/S722 -732.