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Total number of records: 381

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture381
Rudolf Laban Collections1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture317
community life207
communication131
literature and folklore130
manners and customs119
english language - dialects116
folklore100
occupations83
persons71
folk music70

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)14
University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies8
Lloyd Weedon, Trevor7
Green, Anthony E (1943-)6
Bailey, Charles James N3
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Weatherill, Frank (1892-1974)3
Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)2
British Association For the Advancement of Science2
English Folk Dance and Song Society2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 18006
From 1900375

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 18992
Up to 1999379

Archive Sub-collection

Folk Life File

1836-1998

This subfonds constitutes the Folk Life File, an archival resource actively created throughout the lifetime of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS), probably in relation to its Folk ...

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AA: General Works

1950-1985

This series contains items relating to the study of folklore and folklife in general. It includes papers related to the principles of Folklife Studies and research methodology; items on folk-related c...

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I: Popular Belief and Practice

1966-1981

This subseries contains items relating to aspects of popular belief and practice. This includes items on popular beliefs and superstitions; a paper on superstitions in Imo State, Nigeria; the script o...

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J: Mythical Tradition

1955-1978

This series contains items relating to mythical traditions, including supernatural beings, ghostly apparitions and legends.

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K: Historical Tradition (Legend)

1961-1979

This series contains items on legends based on historical tradition. The subject matter includes pagan and church legends, legends linked with historical events, legends about historical figures, and ...

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L: Popular Oral Tradition

1960-1981

This series contains items relating to oral tradition, including folktales, verse, riddles, proverbs and conventional expressions.

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M: Folk Music, Dance and Drama

1936-1982

This series contains items relating to aspects of traditional performance, including music, dance and drama. The items include studies of folk performance, as well as song texts and tunes, and transcr...

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N: Sports, Games and Pastimes

1961-1976

This series contains items relating to amusements in the form of games, sports and pastimes. The subject matter includes sports and athletic games, traditional annual games, animal sports, and card an...

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P: Children's Traditions

1954-1982

This series contains items relating to children's customs and traditions. The main focus is on children's games, songs and rhymes.

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Q: Folk Art

1970-1979

This series contains items relating to popular art traditions. The subject matter includes English naive painting of the 18th and 19th centuries; decorative arts including carving in ivory and bone, a...

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R: Gypsies (Cultural Minorities)

1966-1975

This subseries contains items relating to Gypsy Traveller and Roma culture. The subject matter includes Gypsy Traveller life and customs, public perceptions of Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities, S...

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Dialect File

[1933-1998]

This series contains items deposited in the Dialect File. In addition to papers on aspects of dialects and language, in particular English and United States English, the series includes glossaries of ...

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