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Annual Festivals

Archive Sub-series: LAVC/FLF/9/2

Details

Type of record: Archive

Title: Annual Festivals

Level: Sub-series

Classmark: LAVC/FLF/9/2

Date(s): 1962-1981

Size and medium: 1 box with 10 files of photocopied, typed and ms. papers, pamphlets, magazine extracts and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings.; 0.41 linear metres.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410693

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

This subseries contains items relating to annual festivals. This includes items on bonfire traditions, Christmas traditions, New Year, Valentine's Day, Shrove Tuesday customs, Easter Eggs, May Day and other local celebrations. The items on bonfires and Easter Eggs includes information collected during surveys conducted from the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies for the Folk Life Survey. The items on Christmas traditions include student survey papers produced as part of the undergraduate degree in Folk Life Studies at Leeds.

System of arrangement

The files are retained in original classification order.

Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

There are no access restrictions on items in the Folk Life File.

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.

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