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Total number of records: 33
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J: Mythical Tradition
1955-1978
This series contains items relating to mythical traditions, including supernatural beings, ghostly apparitions and legends.
K: Historical Tradition (Legend)
1961-1979
This series contains items on legends based on historical tradition. The subject matter includes pagan and church legends, legends linked with historical events, legends about historical figures, and ...
Q: Folk Art
1970-1979
This series contains items relating to popular art traditions. The subject matter includes English naive painting of the 18th and 19th centuries; decorative arts including carving in ivory and bone, a...
R: Gypsies (Cultural Minorities)
1966-1975
This subseries contains items relating to Gypsy Traveller and Roma culture. The subject matter includes Gypsy Traveller life and customs, public perceptions of Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities, S...
L: Popular Oral Tradition
1960-1981
This series contains items relating to oral tradition, including folktales, verse, riddles, proverbs and conventional expressions.
E: Human Life: Social Customs and Rites of Passage
1962-1980
This series includes items relating to various aspects of human life and the human life cycle. The subject matter includes the human body, childhood, and customs and beliefs associated with birth, mar...
F: Nature
1947-1981
This series contains items on subjects relating to the natural world, including folklore and terminology. The subject matter largely covers weatherlore, natural formations and the landscape, and plant...
Audiotape Sound Recordings
1954-1981
The majority of the tapes in this series contain fieldwork recordings made by students pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate courses in folk life or dialect at the University of Leeds, through the D...
Linguistic Surveys
[1928]-1985
European and North American surveys, undertaken by universities and individual researchers. This series includes examples of word maps/atlases, questionnaires and sample responses, publishers' adverti...
Folklife Surveys
1955-1979
This series contains national, regional and local surveys of folklore and folklife undertaken in Europe and North America through universities and government-funded Commissions. It provides examples o...
Finding Aids and Related Papers
1970-1983
This series contains items relating both to the organisation of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies' archive and library holdings, and aids for researchers wishing to access such holdings. ...
Gramophone and Long Play Disc Recordings
1920s-1981
Series of dialect rcordings that include: 1)Earlier recordings of dialect speakers from the North-East of England, made by Harold Orton and others in the late 1930s as part of the Armstrong College ...