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Total number of records: 10132

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Archives10128
Objects4

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture10132
Rudolf Laban Collections1
University Archive1

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culture3197
occupations2582
english language - dialects1991
community life1843
nature1661
agriculture1212
buildings1158
animals1113
implements, utensils etc978
manners and customs924

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England3443
Yorkshire374
Essex165
Lincolnshire165
Lancashire154
Norfolk143
Somerset143
Devon121
Salop (Shropshire)121
Staffordshire121

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1532
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1198
Wright, John T571
Wright, Peter446
Sykes, Donald Richard358
Barry, Michael V (1935-)344
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)323
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)281
Brunk, Wille169
Francis, W Nelson (1910-2002)146

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From 2000511

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Up to 19999580
Up to latest547

Archive Sub-collection

Archivists' Papers

1955-1992

Throughout most of its lifetime, the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) employed an archivist to manage its archive and library of dialect and folklife collections, created through the...

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Archive Series

Archivists' Correspondence and Related Papers

1962-1992

This series contains correspondence between successive Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivists and non-University of Leeds students and academics, publishers, museums and local m...

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Correspondence

1969-1981

Letters to and from Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivists Joyce Salmona(archivist in 1969), Margaret Jackson(1971-1976), Brenda Neale(1976-1978) and Susan Drury(1978-1981). The...

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Questionnaire No.2, 1962 Correspondence (Extracted) Weatherlore

Whitfield, Jean

1962-1963

Individual responses to Jean Whitfield's request for help with her gardening folklore questionnaire, published in the journal 'Popular Gardening' and the newspapers the Yorkshire Evening Post and Newc...

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Uppsala Key Adaptation

Whitfield, Jean

1963

Jean Whitfield's proposed revision of the Uppsala Real Register (folk life classification scheme). The whole revision is in ms. form, and is accompanied by a letter from Lisa [surname?] (possibly a st...

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Archive File

Archivists' Index Cards

[1975-1983]

This box is labelled Names and Addresses, List of Jobs, Periodical Accessions, Filing, and contains various sections recording tasks relating to the day-to-day management of the archive holdings.

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Archive File

IDFLS Lists of Theses etc. - Correspondence

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-); Drury, Susan

1971-1987

The letters in this file comprise enquiries regarding the purchase of Stewart Sanderson's 'Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations in Folk Life Studies in the University of Leeds 1961-1970', and request...

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Application for Copies of Material: IDFLS

1977-1992

Application forms and accompanying correspondence; two lists (ms., typescript photocopies) of dialect theses held in the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies library. The bulk of these items wer...

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Correspondence File

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-); Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1977-1981

Responses to an International Association of Sound Archivesquestionnaire, from Stewart Sanderson (1977) and Tony Green (1981), detailing the holdings of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studie...

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Internationale Volkskundliche Bibliographie Classification Scheme

Drury, Susan

1979

Correspondence between Susan Drury and Rolf Brednich, Professor of Folklore at the Universität Göttingen, regarding the 'Internationale Volkskundliche Bibliographie'[ 'International Folklore and Fol...

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Internal Correspondence - Bursar, Miss Stead etc.

1981

Typed sheets relating to the employment of a Research Assistant in the School of English, to work on the English Dialect Survey's dictionary project. This was to be a two-year project, commencing Octo...

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Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies Letterheads

[1965-1975]

Blank letterheads, bearing the Institute's name and that of the Director, Stewart Sanderson.

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