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Total number of records: 54

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persons54
culture43
community life39
food33
occupations29
manners and customs28
folk music26
play22
folklore21
nature21

Top 10: People and organisations

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Cooke, Jane A10
Dunn, Ginette6
Baldwin, John R5
Cook, R. G.4
Crook, Rosemary4
Agg, Albert3
Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy3
Bryon, Fiona2
Cook, E. T.2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2

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Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

3 January 1980

Mary Morgan (of Ferndale) talks about her family (siblings; parents - occupations); domestic life - washing, bathing, cooking, sleeping arrangements; the General Strike; mining; mother-in-law working ...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1966

Harry Lay, recorded at home in Bampton; talks about playing the character Father Christmas in a mummers' play performed in Bampton each year; recites lines from the play, and goes on to talk about his...

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"Gypsy Family"

Hartley, Dorothy

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken ca. 1920 of a Gypsy Traveller family sitting outside their caravan in an unknown (English) location. The family consists of two parents, five children and a baby. The family...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Wilson, David L

11 December 1971

Allison Cooke and Janet Stern, recorded in Leeds, talking about American university and college campus folklore: rumour; freshman initiation; homecoming games; May Day weekend; Greek Weekend; Greek Si...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

[1970s]

Mr. J. Froggatts, recorded in Chapelthorpe; talks about Pontefract Horse Fair; anecdotes relating to his family; biographical details; half time at school aged twelve, working part-time in the pit; le...

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Women of the Rhondda Valleys Between the Wars

Crook, Rosemary

1980

M.A. study of the women of the Rhondda Valleys and their roles as wife, mother and neighbour, on both a practical level in terms of physical comfort and support, and on an abstract level in terms of p...

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Sound Recordings, South Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire

Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy

1974

James Cook, recorded at home in Maybole on 2 April 1974. Conversation re. fishing and village life; fishermen from Maidens selling fish; occupational folklore re. red-haired women; village community; ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

11 September 1974

Priscilla Savage, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about the village Youth Hostel; her parents and siblings; food, diet and bread baking; own family and children; working in service; childhood in L...

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

[Collector announcement]; Ivy Simmons [Simmonds?], recorded with her husband [?at home in Tamworth]; answers questions about names given to pig meat, making brawn and pickling; names for chickens, tur...

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Sound Recordings, South Ayrshire

Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy

December 1973

[Collector announcement]; Mungo Munro , recorded at home in Dunure, talks about his fishing career, 1926-1971; deep sea fishing for herring; line fishing; women baiting lines (with mussels, also sand ...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire

Baldwin, John R

1966-1967

George Powell, recorded in his home in Wigginton. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A476r. Sings 'Jim the Carter's Lad', 'Beer Beer Glorious Beer' [fragment] and 'Joan's Ale'. Mr. ...

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Sound Recordings, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

9 January 1980

Recorded in an Old People's Home in Treorchy ; Gladys Flinn (born Ystrad, Glamorgan) talks about family background, occupation of father; describes domestic routine - clothes washing, sleeping arrange...

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