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Total number of records: 163

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Archives147
Books and printed items16

Count of Collection group

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture142
Brotherton Collection10
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection4
Herbert Read Collection2
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

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musical instruments163
play142
culture117
folk music107
community life62
occupations57
english language - dialects52
manners and customs45
persons36
social life and customs29

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London, United Kingdom3
Gibraltar2
Great Britain1

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Dunn, Ginette15
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)14
Russell, Ian10
Sullivan, Keith Frederick10
Chapman, Mr9
Harrison, Stephen8
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)7
Webb, Percy6
Alderson, Richard5
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5

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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Buckland, Theresa Jill

08/Sep/1975 - 08/Sep/1975

Douglas Fowell, accompanist to the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, recorded in Abbots Bromley; plays tunes on the piano accordion: 'Cock of the North', 'The Girl I Left Behind Me' , 'River of Jordan', 'Off...

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Sound Recordings, Stockton-on-Tees

Schrut, Judith Lynne

January 1977

Foodways: Brenda Conway, recorded in Thornaby, talks about making cheese and potato pie (learned from her mother); recording of informant making the dish in her kitchen; biographical details of the in...

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Sound Recording, [ Iraq]

Al-Hadithi, Sa'adi

[1970s]

Eight Iraqi songs [of the Rababa]. Includes the collector's announcements, in English and Arabic. [Tr. 2]

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Sound Recording,

Holloway, Charles

30 December 1978

The collector's parents, Mr. C. R. P. Holloway and Mrs. W. J. Holloway discuss family Christmas traditions - games, children's parties, belief in Santa Claus, Christmas walks, skating on Boxing Day, h...

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Sound Recordings, [Location Unknown]

Bell, Brigid M

28 December 1978

[Collector announcement: interviews with collector's parents and paternal grandmother]; Mary Bell talks about Christmas as a child in Ireland - food, no alcohol; Christmas as mother of collector's fat...

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Sound Recordings, [United States]

Smith, Lloyd Allen

[1978]

[Collector announcement: a collection of edited field recordings, originally made by the collector, and dubbed onto the present tape in ?1978]; examples of scales played on Pennsylvanian German zyther...

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Harness Bells
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Harness Bells

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1965

Set of three bells for the harness of a bell mare, Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card. Includes ms. note on the wearing of bells by bell mares and an ms. note in the hand of Wern...

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Sound Recording, Surrey

Bell, Brigid M

Jul 23 1979

Bell ringing practise session in Send [preceded by general conversation as the ringers assemble]. Various changes, interspersed with conversation during breaks. Recorded 23 July 1979.

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Sound Recording, Surrey

Bell, Brigid M

Jul 30 1979

[Collector's announcement: name of collector, date of interviews.] [Tr. 4] Interview with Send bell ringers - length of service, motivation and competition. Principal informant is the Tower Captain....

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Sound Recording, Surrey

Bell, Brigid M

Nov 30 1979

[Collector announcement: date, given as November 31st]; interviews with Send bell ringers - peals for special occasions (jubilees, weddings, funerals, calling out the Parson - not done in Send, but re...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Bergal, Nancy Ann

06 Dec 1979 - 13 Dec 1979

John Barstow, recorded in Leeds, talks about Irish folk songs, Irish immigrants working on building sites [?in Leeds], folk singing in pubs in period after World War Two; folk clubs in Leeds in 1979; ...

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Board of Elders, Catholic Church, Gibraltar to Novello, Vincent

12 Jul 1837

Handwritten letter from the Board of Elders of the Catholic Church, Gibralter, to Vincent Novello, thanking Novello for his role in supervising the installation of a new organ.

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