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Total number of records: 6

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SubjectCount
manners and customs6
social life and customs6
culture5
folklore5
material culture3
play3
english language - dialects2
persons1

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From 19004
From 20002

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Up to 19994
Up to latest2

Archive Series

H: Calendar Customs

1962-1981

This series contains items relating to the celebration of calendar days and annual festivals, and related customs and traditions.

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I: Popular Belief and Practice

1966-1981

This subseries contains items relating to aspects of popular belief and practice. This includes items on popular beliefs and superstitions; a paper on superstitions in Imo State, Nigeria; the script o...

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P: Children's Traditions

1954-1982

This series contains items relating to children's customs and traditions. The main focus is on children's games, songs and rhymes.

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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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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.

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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...

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