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Archive File

Folk Life Dissertations: 1st Supplement

University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies

1971-1975

Typed supplement to Stewart Sanderson's 1971 catalogue of theses and dissertations produced by students at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). This supplement lists theses submitte...

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Archive Sub-series

Correspondence

Brunk, Wille

1965-1967

This subseries contains correspondence, research papers and newsletters, received by Wille Brunk during his assistant lectureship at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). This includ...

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Norfolk Response Books

Francis, W Nelson (1910-2002)

1956-1957

Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Norfolk to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were recor...

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Archive Print Item

Education in Russia, the Independent States and Eastern Europe

Study Group on Education in Russia, the Independent States and Eastern Europe

v.11, no.1(1993)-v.21, no.2(2003/2004) Bound together

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Archive Item

Sound Recording

Open University

[1980]

Stanley Ellis discusses some of the main changes in the English language during the last one thousand years, illustrated with readings from passages written by King Alfred, Geoffrey Chaucer and Willia...

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Archive File

Conferences and Folk Events

1974-1981

This file contains ephemera used to promote and provide information on conferences and other events related to folklore and folklife. This includes a leaflet for the 2nd Yorkshire Folk and Craft Fayre...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Claude Gimbert, recorded in Sutton on the 21 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A675r]; talks about bell ringing techniques, types of bells, learning to ring, methods, c...

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Raven McDavid Articles

McDavid, Raven Ioor (1911-1984)

[1960-1981]

Originally housed in a single folder labelled Complete Set of Xeroxes of Raven McDavid's Articles, these files contain photocopies of printed, typed and draft articles and papers by McDavid, mainly re...

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JOHNSON, Louis (1920-1996)

[1943], 1954-1959, 2002

Intourist (Inturist) brochures (tourist routes, tour programmes, Black Sea, Caucasus, Minsk, Moscow, Urals) /1-9/. Brochures on Abastumani, Bakuriani, Batumi, Borzhomi, Dzhava, Gagra, Gudauta, Kobulet...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Thomson, Sydney

November 1972

The children of Royal Park Primary School, Headingley, Leeds, recorded on the 21 November 1972; talk about poems and writing stories; Christmas presents, trees, decorations; collector talks about Chri...

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Firth College, Sheffield. First session. Inauguaral addresses

Bentley, A T; Firth College (Sheffield, England)

1880

Signed at end: A.T. Bentley.

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