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community life6
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manners and customs3
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agriculture2
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folk music2

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Barnes, John1
Bridgement, Bertram1
Brooks, Margaret1
Claxton, E C1
Drewery, Arthur (1925-1925)1
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Dunn, Ginette1
Marshall, Ernest1
Matthewman, T. Frank1
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Archive File

University Open Day

May 12th 1980

This file contains a typed letter from Ian Rattee (Chairman of the Organising Group), sent to all Departmental Open Day Liaison Officers [possibly Tony Green for the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life...

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The Future of the Bicycle in a Modern Society

Claxton, E C

1968

This file contains a copy of Claxton's paper, read to the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) on 15 November 1967, and extracted from the 'Journal of the Royal Society of Arts'(January 1968), pp. 114-134. The...

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Correspondence

Shippey, T A

1989-2003

Correspondence between Tom Shippey (Chairman of the School of English, University of Leeds) and Kurt Rydland, March 1989-May 1993, relating to Rydland's loan of and work on the Orton Corpus; correspon...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Brooks, Margaret

17 February 1973

George Roberts, dry stone waller, interviewed in Cawthorne with T. Frank Matthewman (Chairman of Cawthorne Parish Council). GR explains dry stone wall construction techniques; source of stone; tools; ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

30 June 1975

Arthur Drewery, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about his song repertoire; sings 'The Blackboard of My Heart'; reference to the Blaxhall Ship Inn, and the Lion pub, Little Glemham; learning songs ...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1974

[Collector announcement]; Bertram Bridgement, recorded in Manea on the 3 July 1974; talks about farming and farm jobs pre-mechanisation; dyke/drain digging tools; job as a horseman; showing horses (Sh...

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Folk Song: General

1959-1981

This file contains typed song texts for 'Ah'm an O'wd Age Penshoner' (provenance unknown); a photocopy of the text and tune for 'Charley of Armor', collected from Captain Shields by Geoff Wood, from a...

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Stewart Sanderson Papers

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1956-1983

This series consists largely of correspondence and research papers created and collected by Stewart Sanderson during his appointment as Director of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFL...

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture, (Survey of English Dialects, and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies)

University of Leeds

1836-2003

The Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture comprises the combined multiple media holdings of the archives of the Survey of English Dialects (ca. 1946-1978) directed by Harold Orton, and the University of...

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