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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture, (Survey of English Dialects, and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies)
University of Leeds
1836-2003
The Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture comprises the combined multiple media holdings of the archives of the Survey of English Dialects (ca. 1946-1978) directed by Harold Orton, and the University of...
Artefacts
[1950-1970]
Material artefacts collected by staff (and students?) of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS), including a scud winder, a decorated egg and two sets of printing matrices.
Dialect and Heritage Project Oral Histories
2022 - 2023
Oral History recordings made by staff, students, volunteers and partner museums as part of the 'Dialect and Heritage' project that ran 2019 -2023. Some recordings also include transcripts and phot...
LAVC, IDFLS and Dialect and Heritage (Interviews)
2022 - 2023
Oral histories recorded with interviewees who had associations to the LAVC Collection, Survey of English Dialects, Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies or the later Dialect and Heritage Project.
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...
Museum Partners (Interviews)
2022 - 2023
Oral history interviews recorded with members of the public by various museum partners as part of the National Lottery funded "Dialect and Heritage Project." These include, Avoncroft Museum of Histor...
Photographic Prints
University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies
c.1962-c.1984
This series contains over 2100 individual photographic prints, contact prints, and contact print sheets. Over 1800 of these photographs were deposited in photo files, which were created as part of the...
Village and Farm
1960-1973
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items on village and farm life, and related topics. This includes W. E. Tate's paper, 'Parish Records and the English Village Community', extracted f...
Games and Pastimes
1959-1980
This subseries contains items relating to children's games and pastimes, and includes Catherine Wellsted's study of children's lore, language and games in Nottinghamshire; newspaper articles on playgr...
Student Folklore Dossiers
1971-1982
Student folklore dossiers, variously subtitled Scheme B - Folk Life 1: First Term Exercise, and Folk Life Exercise: First Term. Each compilation includes the student's biographical details, and items ...
Crafts, Trades and Industries
1951-1981
This subseries contains items on traditional crafts, trades and industries. The subjects represented include crafts in Warwickshire and Ireland, terminology relating to wheelwrighting, Sam Hanna's fil...
Parish and Church
[1965-1975]
This subseries, comprising a single file only, includes Werner Kissling's ms. notes on the Foresters' Walk in Coverdale (connected with the Ancient Order of Foresters) and its byelaws; Margaret Ottley...