Postgraduate Theses and Dissertations

Description

Doctoral theses and masters/diploma dissertations submitted in fulfillment of degrees in Folk Life Studies, English Language, English Literature and Dialectology. The majority of these are typed, and include accompanying printed items, photographs, diagrams and sketches, correspondence, maps and transcriptions. A number of the dialect studies are based on, and/or supplement, fieldwork undertaken by the authors as part of their contribution to the gathering of data for the Survey of English Dialects. The bulk of this series was created during the period 1948-1983.

Provenance

Theses and dissertations held by the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) were originally arranged according to a classification system adapted from the Uppsala Real Register (Swedish folklife classification scheme), comprising eighteen folklife sections (each represented by the letter(s) AA - R). The Institute appended a Dialect section. Items relating to the Institute's adaptation and revision of the the Uppsala Register are held within LAVC/ARC/1/11, LAVC/ARC/2/7-9 and LAVC/ARC/2/14-15.

System of arrangement

The original Uppsala Real Register (Swedish folklife classification scheme) order has been retained. Within each section, items are arranged chronologically, and alphabetically by author.


Bound volumes are shelved, unboxed; unbound items have been removed from their original clip folders, re-filed and boxed.

Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

The theses and dissertations in this subfonds are available for consultation in the searchroom of Special Collections, University of Leeds, by all bona fide researchers. Conditions relating to access and use have, in a number of cases, been applied to particular items by individual depositors. These are noted within the relevant individual records.

Material in this collection is in copyright. Photocopies or digital images can only be supplied by the Library for research or private study within the terms of copyright legislation. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain the copyright holder's permission to reproduce for any other purpose. Guidance is available on tracing copyright status and ownership.

Related material

1 file of correspondence between Stewart Sanderson and various academics, museum keepers and curators, regarding the establishment of a postgraduate Diploma in Folk Life Studies at the University of Leeds (dated 1962-1963). This includes Sanderson's appeal for letters of support, responses from academics and museum staff, letters of thanks and confirmation of the course's acceptance for the year 1963-1964. Includes also draft regulations for the course.


1 file of photocopied papers relating to the Master of Arts degree in Folk Life Studies (typed, all undated). Includes a course description, entry requirements and bibliographies for the elements Folk Life Studies I (Introduction, and Oral Literature) and Folk Life Studies II (Custom and Belief, and Ballad and Folksong).


Both files are held in Leeds University Archive (Ref.: Leeds University Archive: Departmental Records: English: Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies). The Sanderson correspondence was accessioned in September 1983.


1 file of correspondence between Stewart Sanderson and members of staff of the IDFLS involved in supervising postgraduate theses, concerning the completion of theses and the closure of the IDFLS, held at LAVC/STA/1/1/3/7.



Accompanying fieldwork sound recordings are held within LAVC/SRE. These comprise original/copy recordings held in quarter-inch open reel and audio cassette formats ( LAVC/SRE/A). Original field tape recordings relating to particular dialect studies were copied onto gramophone discs during the 1950s and 1960s by Henry Ellis, Senior Technician in the University of Leeds' Phonetics Department. These discs are held within LAVC/SRE/D.


Survey of English Dialects Questionnaire Response books relating to some of the localities chosen by students for dialect study are held in LAVC/SED/2. Other related folk life and dialect items are held in the Folk Life File, LAVC/FLF. In all cases, reference is made to any accompanying items in individual file-level records.

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