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Districts and Boundaries
1859-1869
This subseries contains items relating to the land divisions and boundaries connected with settlement and land use; and information pertinent to specific localities, for example placenames and their o...
Plants and Animals
1947-1981
This subseries contains items relating to aspects of plant and animal lore, including a study of Yorkshire plant names, a questionnaire on plant names in Norway, items on plantlore, cuttings from a pe...
Sky and Weather; Natural Formations
1961-1975
This subseries contains items on weatherlore, natural formations in the landscape and ancient stone monuments.
Care and Management of Livestock
1957-1973
This subseries contains items relating to the care and management of livestock on farms, including papers, and magazine and newspaper cuttings (chiefly from 'Country Life'), which focus largely on hor...
Hunting, Shooting, and Trapping
1973
This subseries, comprising one file only, includes an ms. diagram and notes on an animal trap seen at Stokesley, North Yorkshire, 27 October 1973, by Tony Green; David Cleveland's article on punt-gunn...
Towns
1966
This subseries, comprising one file, contains a photocopy of Stewart Sanderson and Stuart Piggott's chapter on Edinburgh and its history and development, from the Edinburgh volume of 'The Third Statis...
Forestry
1969-1971
This subseries, comprising one file only, includes Oliver Rackham's article on the ancient woodlands of East Anglia, extracted from 'Country Life' (21 October 1971), pp. 1062-1066; William Seymour's a...
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...
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...
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 ...