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Total number of records: 26

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture26
folk dancing26
community life22
folk music19
play18
english language - dialects17
manners and customs16
food13
occupations13
entertainment events12

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette6
Sullivan, Keith Frederick6
Hayes, Raymond (1909-2000)4
Pickering, Michael J3
Baldwin, John R2
Ashton, John1
Austin, Harry1
Brown, I. M.1
Carter, Lindsay1
Cook, R. G.1

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Sound Recording, Hampshire

Wakelin, Martyn F

1964

Charles Sheppard, recorded in Bishop's Sutton; talks about working with pigs; rook starving [scaring] after the corn sown; scarecrows; service in the Rifle Brigade during World War One, in France; ret...

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Sound Recording, Durham

Pickering, Michael J

5 April 1974

Professor Thomas Thacker, recorded at home in Durham; gives his recollections of Janet Bluntin the late 1920s/early 1930s; attitudes of villagers to her and vice versa; her family, folk song collectin...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September 1973

Harry Austin, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about local people listed on an unidentified manuscript; comments on a number of local families, including the Welsh family, the Walton family, Marth...

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Domestic Life in Rural Suffolk

Niccolls, Sharon

1982

A dissertation which analyses continuity and change in domestic customs and traditions in rural Suffolk, in the fifty years to 1982. The first of four chapters focusses on the housewife, and contains ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

2 July 1975

Ben Ling, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about singing when younger, and learning to sing; singing at school, and during his time in the Army (in France, field artillery); farm work with his uncl...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ashton, John

[1974/1975]

Harry Slack, recorded in his home in Leeds. Talks about his family; village ceilidhes in Ireland; melodeons; music at the Regent pub in Leeds; sings [unidentified]; discusses the learning of songs; si...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Stigell, Ossi

1976

[Collector announcement]; Mr. Oldridge of Sampford Peverell talks about his work as a greenkeeper; farming and the changes brought about through mechanisation; the village's changing population; his f...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September/October 1973

Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about the Blunt family; book rescued from house following Janet Blunt's death; JB's family members and location of living members; Janet Blunt and ev...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

October 1974

Dick Woolnough, recorded at home in Snape during the 30th and 31st of October [woman and small child - ?daughter and grandson - also present]. Sings 'London Apprentice Boy'; comments/conversation; sin...

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Sound Recording, British Columbia (Canada)

Smith, Peter

7 January 1977

Lindsay Carter, recorded in New Denver; talks about his birthplace; the town of Sandon - amenities, population, prominent citizens, community spirit; the Depression; Christmas time; Halloween; Christm...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mrs. Reed [location not given] talks about the Mothers' Union; her husband's involvement with the local Church Council [Mr. Reed, recorded on tape LAVC/SRE/A699r]; the village fete; skittles; activiti...

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Traditional Fiddle Playing in West Clare: Junior Crehan and Michael Downes

Taylor, Barry Roy

1977

A study of the work of the Irish fiddle players, Junior Crehan and Michael Downes. The first of its nine sections presents a brief historical survey of Irish dance and its music; section two provides ...

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