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Neale, Brenda Ann7
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Archive File

Getting Married: An Ethnographic and Bibliographic Study

Neale, Brenda Ann

1985

This Ph.D. thesis is divided into two parts. Part One, The Study of Ritual, describes theoretical foundations, theoretical developments and urban ritual studies. Part Two, Getting Married, includes ch...

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Bibliography and Historical Linguistics

Alston, Robin C (1933-)

1965

Typed paper, read before the Bibliographical Society on 16 February 1965.

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Videos (Wedding Services and Receptions, Leeds)

Neale, Brenda Ann

1976-1977

The video recordings in this subfonds were collected by a single collector, Brenda Neale, for her PhD thesis, 'Getting Married: An Ethnographic and Bibliographic Study' (Leeds, 1985). The recordings w...

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Leeds City Market

Hermansson, Nana

1969

This file contains items relating to Nana Hermansson's research into Leeds City Market and market traders. This includes ms. and typed transcripts of a tape recorded interview with Harry Hudson, a sta...

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Riddles: General

[ca. 1967-1978]

This file contains a typed copy, with ms. annotations, of Peter Nalder's paper commenting on the extension and modification of the Archer Taylor riddle index, 'English Riddles from Oral Tradition', wi...

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"Papers on Gypsies"

Lloyd Weedon, Trevor

1974

This file contains photocopies of ms. papers by Lloyd Weedon on gypsies. The first paper focusses on the Gypsy Traveller communities of Ireland and Scotland, and includes discussions on Irish Gypsy Tr...

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Lists from the Archive of Folk Song

Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)

1971-1974

This file contains lists produced by and for, and information about, the Archive of Folk Song at the Music Division of the Library of Congress. The file includes two versions of the paper, 'The Archiv...

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Sky and Weather

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains items relating to weatherlore, including an ms. paper compiled by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivist Margaret Jackson, containing weatherlore, with bibliog...

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Miscellaneous Folklore Papers

1964-1979

Pamphlet by Charles Phythian-Adams, 'Local History and Folklore: A New Framework' ([London]: Standing Conference for Local History, 1975), 39 pp.; reprint from the 'Journal of the Folklore Institute',...

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Neale, Bren

2022

Audio and related item/s (photograph/transcript) relating to oral history interview conducted with named interviewee (see file title) as part of National Lottery Heritage funded, "Dialect and Heritage...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Neale, Brenda Ann

26 February 1977

[Collector announcement]; the wedding ceremony and reception for the marriage of the informants recorded on tapes LAVC/SRE/A571r - A574r. The wedding service was recorded in St Wilfrid's Churchin Leed...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Neale, Brenda Ann

11 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; female, recorded in her parents' house in Leeds; describes her first meeting with her future husband; first date; buying drinks; meeting in-laws; presents; going out annivers...

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