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Dress
1966-1975
This subseries contains items relating to costume and dress. The subject matter includes traditional and occupational clothing and footwear; the collection of footwear; and headwear and related access...
Classes of the Community
1972
This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains Christopher Sykes' article, 'The Last of the Wold Rangers', extracted from 'Country Life' (31 August 1972), pp. 504-505. The article focusses on...
Oral Tradition
1954-1982
This subseries contains items relating to oral traditions amongst children, and includes items on children's songs and rhymes; Peter Millington's collection of Nottinghamshire rhymes; papers by Gwenda...
Human Life
1962-1980
This subseries contains items relating to aspects of human life, focussing on childhood, marriage and death. This includes a survey of perceptions of menstrual bleeding conducted for the World Health ...
The Human Being
1969-1974
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items relating to the human body. This includes a photocopy of a short article from 'The Guardian' on left-handedness (5 May 1974); and a mounted mag...
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 ...
Questionnaire Response Books
1950-1961
This subseries contains the original response books in which the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers recorded informants' responses to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. A response book exists f...
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...
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 ...