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Total number of records: 783

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Archives779
Books and printed items4

Count of Collection group

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture778
Brotherton Collection4
Herbert Read Collection3
Cookery Collection1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
play783
culture466
occupations423
material culture333
community life314
manners and customs248
folk music225
handicraft205
nature188
games181

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)178
Langhorne, Richard42
Sullivan, Keith Frederick32
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)26
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)21
Dunn, Ginette20
Tammivaara, Irmeli14
Aston, Michael Geoffrey13
Russell, Ian13
Horner, Mr M.12

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From 18002
From 1900781

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Up to 18991
Up to 1999782

Archive Sub-collection

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.

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Archive Series

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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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...

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Archive Sub-series

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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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Archive File

The Folklife of South Warwickshire: A Field Collection with Comparative Annotations and Commentary

Wharton, Colin S

1974

This Ph.D. thesis is divided into three parts. The first (Introduction) defines the word folklore, describes the purpose of the work and the method of approach. The second (The Folklore of South Warwi...

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Archive File

An Investigation into the Play of Children Living in a Traditionally Working Class Area of Back-to-Back Housing Property, in Leeds, in May and June, 1962

Collins, J M Mrs; McKelvie, Donald

1962

A study of schoolchildren at play in Leeds, combining researches in education and folk life by two postgraduate students at the University of Leeds. Mrs. Collins was taking a Diploma in Curricular Stu...

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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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Some Aspects of Oral, Social and Material Tradition in an Industrial Urban Area

McKelvie, Donald

1963

The nine chapters in this Ph.D. thesis describe an approach to collecting folklife material in the cities, towns and villages of West Yorkshire (including Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield), with cha...

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