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Total number of records: 59

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture59
history59
community life40
literature and folklore30
communication29
manners and customs29
occupations23
social life and customs19
folklore18
nature18

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Lloyd Weedon, Trevor4
Dundes, Alan1
Gessler, Jean1
Greenwood, Harry1
Irish Tourist Board1
Karpeles, Maud1
Katz, Theodor1
Kellet, G R1
Mason, Mr1
Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Aural History1

Archive Sub-series

Regional Social Histories

1969-1982

This subseries contains items relating largely to the social history of specific areas, including details of folk custom. Of the subseries' eight component parts, six are photocopies of original manus...

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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...

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Sky and Weather; Natural Formations

1961-1975

This subseries contains items on weatherlore, natural formations in the landscape and ancient stone monuments.

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Popular Belief: Miscellaneous

1968-1981

This file contains a photocopy of Miss Wilelmine M. E. Fowler's paper on Yorkshire folklore, from 'Memorials of Old Yorkshire', ed. by T. M. Fallow (London: George Allen, 1909), pp. 286-305; a copy of...

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Pagan and Church Legends

1961-1972

This file contains items relating to pagan cult places, and legends and traditions connected with church history. This includes mounted magazine cuttings from 'Country Life' and 'John Peel Jottings', ...

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Sports and Athletic Games

1961-1974

This file contains items relating to sports and games of athletic ability, skill, strength and endurance. This includes a copy of 'The Ancient Haxey Hood Game (An Ancestor of Football?)', by J. W. ff....

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Talismans, Magical Techniques, Charms, Etc.

1966-1979

The file contains an ms. letter from Evelyn Briggs on a superstition associated with seeing pigs on the way to the [horse] races (16 October 1972); Mary Corringham's article on talismans and their use...

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Historical Events

1969-1975

This file contains Theo Brown's pamphlet, 'Trojans in the West Country' (St. Peter Port: Toucan Press, 1970), 16 pp.; L. V. Grinsell's pamphlet on the folklore of Stanton Drew (St. Peter Port: Toucan ...

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Decorative Arts

1970-1979

This file contains items relating generally to the decorative arts, including carving and the decoration of items. The file includes a photocopy of Carson I. A. Ritchie's article, 'Art of the Northern...

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"Papers on Gypsies"

Lloyd Weedon, Trevor

1974

This file contains photocopies of ms. papers by Lloyd Weedon on gypsies. The first paper focusses on the Gypsy Traveller communities of Ireland and Scotland, and includes discussions on Irish Gypsy Tr...

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The Influence of Outside Cultures on the Gaelic Tongue

Lloyd Weedon, Trevor

[ca. 1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of an ms. paper by Lloyd Weedon on Gaelic language in Scotland and its decline. The file also includes a photocopy of a page from an unidentified publication showing a m...

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Wortweiser der Historischen Grammatik der Englischen Sprache von Dr. Karl Luick

Katz, Theodor

1949

This file contains an alphabetical list of English keywords from Karl Luick's 'Historischen Grammar der Englischen Sprache'. Each word is classified according to word type (i.e. adjective, adverb, etc...

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