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Total number of records: 17

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cooking17
rites and ceremonies17
food16
holidays16
manners and customs16
culture15
social life and customs14
community life13
folk music9
folklore8

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Bell, Brigid M1
Bell, Mary1
Bell, Robert1
Bell, Sheila1
Bennett, David1
Bennett, Olive1
Calvert, Valerie E1
Cardus, Stella1
Carter, Dorothy1

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A Study of Yorkshire Parkin and Gingerbread

Marsh, Patricia

1971

A dissertation comprising four chapters. The first outlines the Yorkshire housekeeping tradition, especially as related to parkin and gingerbread, and includes recipes for wines and punches suitable f...

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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Eames, Bronwen A

[1979]

Two performances of the Uttoxeter Feather Guizers' Christmas Mumming Play, recorded in two pubs in Uttoxeter. [The recording level on both is very low, and there is much background noise from people i...

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Sound Recording,

Gebarowicz, Anita

December 1978

[Collector announcement, followed by gap in recording of c. 50 seconds]; collector's mother describes a typical Polish Christmas Eve - traditional food dishes for Christmas supper, decorating the tree...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Ronague, Isle of Man

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

Nov 1958

[Side 1] Amanda talks about local farms and farmhouses, recalls open fireplace in childhood home, remembers trips by horse and cart to collect ling for fire, describes apparatus for cooking and baking...

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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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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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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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Folklore of Worsley: A Miscellaneous Collection of Tradition and Belief From the Area of Worsley, Salford Metropolitan District

Skinner, Margaret

1975

A study of the folklore of Worsley people, based on oral and printed sources. Interviews were conducted with older residents, and children at a Primary School in Walkden. The study contains a sectio...

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Folklore Survey (Goathland)

Green, R J

1963

A fieldwork notebook containing items of folklore collected during July 1963 in Goathland, North Yorkshire, from sixteen informants. For each informant, a name and address are given, and the item coll...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Starkey, Helen

28 Sep 1976 - 29 Sep 1979

Foodways: informants [ Gladys Parker and her husband], recorded in Brighouse, talk about beer/wine making; Sowerby Bridge Dock Pudding; Christmas food - preparation, ingredients for Christmas meal; Ea...

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