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Total number of records: 22

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cooking22
culture22
folk music22
food22
community life19
manners and customs19
holidays18
social life and customs18
english language - dialects12
nature11

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette3
Lyons, Bernard2
Lyons, Gillian2
Lyons, Margaret2
Aldcroft, Linda1
Barwell, Carol A1
Barwell, Kenneth1
Barwell, Mary1
Bell, Brigid M1
Bell, Mary1

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Christmas Traditions: Student Survey, 1968-1969

1968-1969

This file contains papers produced by students for the undergraduate degree in Folk Life Studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The papers are the result of a survey exerci...

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Christmas Traditions: Student Survey, 1978-1979

1978-1979

This file contains papers produced by students for the undergraduate degree in Folk Life Studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The papers are the result of a survey exerci...

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Christmas Traditions: Student Survey, 1979-1980

1979-1980

This file contains papers produced by students for the undergraduate degree in Folk Life Studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The papers are the result of a survey exerci...

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Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Graham, Jacqueline P

17 January 1979

Graeme Ryan, a student at the University of Leeds, talks about Christmas food and drink; family routine at Christmas; perceptions of Christmas; Father Christmas; carols; decorations. Informant origina...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

9 September 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, sings 'Eat More Fruit'; talks about Jack Harland and learning 'Bold General Wolfe' from him; sings fragment of 'Up She Went Like a Rocket', also sung by Harland; s...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

16 November 1974

Percy Ling, recorded at home in Snape; talks about singing at the Golden Key pub in Snape, and meeting his future wife there; wife's family; segregation of men and women in the pub; attitude to women ...

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Sound Recordings,

Barwell, Carol A

27 December 1978

[Collector announcement: informant, date]; Kenneth Barwell [collector's father] talks about family Christmases in the 1960s and mid 1970s; meaning of Christmas; cards, Christmas trees. [Tr. 8]

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Sound Recordings, [Cambridgeshire]

Lyons, Margaret

December 1978

[Collector announcement]; Gillian Lyons [collector's mother], recorded in the family kitchen [in Cambridgeshire], talks about Christmas food; Anne Sorrell [collector's sister] talks about family Chris...

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Sound Recordings, [Cambridgeshire]

Lyons, Margaret

Dec 1978

[Collector announcement]; collector's grandmother [ recorded in Cambridgeshire]; offers childhood recollections of Christmas in the 1910s/1920s - presents, food and drink, supper, singsongs, games (ch...

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The Pasche Egg

Calvert, Valerie E

1962

A study of the Easter egg and customs associated with it, based on questionnaire responses and fieldwork interviews with informants living in (or one time resident in) Burscough, Workington, Preston, ...

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Sound Recordings, [Shropshire and Birmingham]

Carter, Julie

29 Dec 1978 - 4 Jan 1979

[Collector announcement - informant collector's grandmother]; Alice Payne 's recollections of Christmas in Shropshire - preparations, including collecting holly; presents; food (Christmas pudding, cak...

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Sound Recordings, [Location Unknown]

Bell, Brigid M

28 December 1978

[Collector announcement: interviews with collector's parents and paternal grandmother]; Mary Bell talks about Christmas as a child in Ireland - food, no alcohol; Christmas as mother of collector's fat...

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