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Total number of records: 884

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture751
english language - dialects517
folk music506
community life467
occupations399
manners and customs346
food258
agriculture248
nature242
play242

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Russell, Ian97
Dunn, Ginette85
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)68
Sullivan, Keith Frederick68
Harrop, Peter K39
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)33
Upton, Clive S31
Barry, Michael V (1935-)22
Green, Anthony E (1943-)22
Baldwin, John R20

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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...

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Sound Recording, Nottingham

Holt, Rachel A

September 1971

Market pitcher recorded at Sneinton Market, Nottingham.

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Sound Recordings, London

Beels, Gillian Rosemary

[1972]

London market street sellers' patter, selling various household items on Oxford Street and in Petticoat Lane Market. Eleven traders recorded.

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Sound Recording, [Essex]

Mahoney, Kathryn C

September 1972

Mr. Stuart and Mrs. Stuart discuss witch beliefs, the occult and Wicca.

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Sound Recordings, Essex

Mahoney, Kathryn C

[1972]

Street interviews with people [in Hadleigh] regarding witch beliefs, the occult and knowledge of a local witch, Cunning Murrell. [Trs. 1-2] Interview with Mrs. Bonser (née Murrell), regarding Cunni...

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Sound Recordings, Liverpool

Bond, Francis Keith

1973-1974

Interviews with Henry Glover of Melling [Tr. 4], and the grandparents of the collector, Mary Bickerstaffe and Robert Bickerstaffe [Tr. 5], resident in the Page Moss area of Liverpool. All discuss thei...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Unidentified female talks about her experience of living in Liverpool during World War Two - air raid shelters, songs at school, gas masks, dockers' reminiscences, rationing, wartime spirit, life at s...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Unidentified male informant talks about Army life during World War Two, rationing, and relates various humorous anecdotes. [Tr. 3] René Bond talks about her experience as a fourteen year old living...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Unidentified male (a policeman during and after World War Two) talks about Civil Defence, the Blitz on Liverpool and area, wartime spirit, the emergency services, rationing and food, anecdotal inciden...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Mr. J. F. Bond [collector's father] talks about the experience of World War Two in Liverpool; Army volunteer (training in Perth) - posted to Normandy, through Europe to Berlin; riots in Trieste; his y...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Kathy Bond [collector's mother] relates her recollections of living in the Huyton area of Liverpool during World War Two - air raids, prisoners-of-war, transit camps, VJ Day celebrations, rationing, m...

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Sound Recordings, Lancashire

Monaghan, Ann M

[1973]

Male informant [? Mr. Suddell], recorded in Preston, talks about the Preston Guild of 1972 - organisation, description of themed Catholic procession, costumes - role of the Committee [informant's neph...

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