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Total number of records: 484

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culture484
folk music484
english language - dialects470
community life200
manners and customs151
persons128
occupations123
play120
holidays91
agriculture77

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Russell, Ian90
Dunn, Ginette71
Sullivan, Keith Frederick53
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)25
Harrop, Peter K24
Baldwin, John R21
Green, Anthony E (1943-)19
Hinchcliffe, Frank18
Webb, Percy16
Broadhead, Bernard14

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The Language of Storytelling

Graham, Jacqueline P

1980

A study which examines the telling of the same story to the collector by two different informants. Both concern a local character known as Buttonsticks, and were related to the collector in July 1979....

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Jokes, Rhymes and Language

1969-1979

This file includes a mounted newspaper article from the 'Yorkshire Post'(19 November 1979), on children's jokes and Sandra McCosh's fieldwork collecting jokes from schoolchildren in Leeds for her M.A....

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The Lore, Language and Games of Children

Wellsted, Catherine

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of Catherine Wellsted's typed study of children's playground and street activities, undertaken as part of a course at the Eaton Hall College of Education in Retford (Not...

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Some Acoustic Differences Among Languages

Hanley, T D; Snidecor, J C; Ringel, R L

1966

This file contains a copy of a joint paper which discusses an experiment to examine tonal differences between spoken Spanish, Japanese and American English, based on field recordings made of students ...

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Sound Recordings, [Italy]

Institute of Early Childhood Development

[1970s]

This is the third of four Italian tapes in the 'Multicultural Cassette Series: Stories, Songs and Rhymes for Young Children', produced by Gwenda Davey and recorded by Norman O'Conner (Victoria: Instit...

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Sound Recordings, [Macedonia]

Institute of Early Childhood Development

[1970s]

This is the first of two Macedonian tapes in the 'Multicultural Cassette Series: Stories, Songs and Rhymes for Young Children', produced by Gwenda Davey and recorded by Norman O'Conner (Victoria: Inst...

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Children's Games and Rhymes

Kenworthy, Valerie D

1965

A collection of children's games and rhymes collected from boys and girls of the second form of Ossett Grammar School in West Yorkshire. The contributors were then resident in Ossett, Wakefield and Ho...

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Record, Film and Microfilm Catalogues

[1965-1979]

This file contains guides and catalogues for audio-visual items that might be used during the course of study or research into folklife and folk music. It includes British Universities Film Council le...

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Sound Recording, New Zealand

Dunn, Ginette

[1973]

Male Maori informant, recorded in Gisborne, New Zealand; talks about a female tribal composer, black magic, Maori laments, oral tradition, songs and singing competitions, Maori language, types of song...

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Long Narrative Verse

[1968-1970]

This file contains four offprinted papers by Michael Cherniss on epic poems, being 'The Progress of the Hoard in Beowulf', offprinted from the 'Philological Quarterly', volume XLVII, number 4 (October...

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Aspects of the West Indian Culture and its Survival in an Urban English Environment - Manchester

Mulley, Ian

1977

M.A. study of West Indian culture in Manchester, based on limited fieldwork and a relatively small number of interviews (predominantly with children attending schools in Moss Side and Greenheys). Chap...

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It's Only a Game? An Account of the Leisure Time Activities of Some Children in Grimsby, Lincolnshire

Whitney, Norman F

1964

A study of children's playground and indoor games, drawing on material collected by folklorists of the past, and the collector's own fieldwork in two Grimsby schools. Four chapters present description...

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