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Total number of records: 1145

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Archives747
Books and printed items397
Objects1

Top 10: Collection group

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture734
Cookery Collection376
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive11
Brotherton Collection1
English Literature1
Herbert Read Collection1
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman1
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1
Leeds Russian Archive1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1

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food1145
occupations522
culture422
community life394
agriculture369
food crops326
implements, utensils etc325
english language - dialects301
nature298
animals250

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London, United Kingdom7
England5
Great Britain5
Italy4
France2
Europa1
Greece1
Hunza1
Pennine Chain (England)1
Prades, France1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)252
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)67
Scott, Mrs M. E.64
Fothergill, George William48
Upton, Clive S28
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)27
Dunn, Ginette24
Raw, David23
Barry, Michael V (1935-)21
Fothergill, Mrs14

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Up to 189951
Up to 19991024
Up to latest33

Archive Sub-sub-series

Easter Egg Survey

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-); Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1962-1963

This sub-subseries includes typed and photocopied questionnaires and covering letters, and ms. and typed responses, to the Folk Life Survey questionnaire on Easter Egg traditions. The survey appears t...

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Hunting, Shooting, and Trapping

1973

This subseries, comprising one file only, includes an ms. diagram and notes on an animal trap seen at Stokesley, North Yorkshire, 27 October 1973, by Tony Green; David Cleveland's article on punt-gunn...

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Housekeeping and Associated Customs

1961-1982

This subseries contains items on housekeeping and domestic customs. The subjects represented include general housekeeping and domestic arrangements, fires and ovens, lighting, milk foods (i.e. butter ...

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Social Intercourse

1967-1972

This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to drinking and inns/public houses. This includes James Stevens Curl's article on gin palaces and their disappearance, extracted ...

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Folklore Survey (Goathland)

Green, R J

1963

A fieldwork notebook containing items of folklore collected during July 1963 in Goathland, North Yorkshire, from sixteen informants. For each informant, a name and address are given, and the item coll...

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A Survey of Annual Bonfires in England 1900-1910

Molloy-Morley, Carolyn

1967

A report outlining the findings of a survey undertaken collaboratively between the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies at Leeds, and the Department of English at University College, London . Th...

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Some Aspects of Folk Life in the West Riding Village of Westend [sic] in Washburndale

Ferguson, I D B

1964

A Study of folk life in the West Riding village of West End (also known as Thruscross, and now in North Yorkshire). An introductory section provides a history of the village and surrounding area, foll...

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An Account of the Home Life, Leisure-Time Activities and Community Traditions of the Northumbrian Coal Miner, Dealing Mainly with the Period 1900 to 1930

Fryer, Sheila

1964

A dissertation based on interviews with seven miners and ex-miners from Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne. The first of its three chapters contains a biographical note on, and the recollections o...

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Cockle Fishing at Leigh-on-Sea

Walker, Priscilla

1965

A dissertation on the cockle fishing industry of Leigh-on-Sea. The study comprises sections presenting a historical outline of the town and growth of the industry, the rise of the industry since 1840,...

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The Farmer Cider-Maker in North and Central Somerset

Coleman, D N

1966

A thesis concerned with those Somerset cider-makers who combine cider-making with farming activities. The core of the study is the description of processes and equipment based on fieldwork carried out...

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The Language of the Meat Trade: A Survey of Terms Used by a Selected Sample of Butchers in the United Kingdom

Upton, Clive Stanley

1977

Ph.D. thesis containing seven chapters and three appendices, presenting the findings of an enquiry into the technical lexicon of the meat trade of the United Kingdom which was carried out between 1973...

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Somerset Cider Making

Gallon, K S

1966

An investigation of cider makers employing methods considered as within the West Country tradition of making, i.e. still sharing basic similarities with recorded descriptions of the methods used by si...

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