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community life26
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english language - dialects15
folk music15
manners and customs15
education13
social life and customs13
buildings8
human settlements8
folklore7

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Pickering, Michael J9
Walton, Wilf2
Wyatt, Winnie2
Annis, Paul1
Austin, Harry1
Baker, Maxine1
Dawney, Michael1
Fowler, Wilelmine M E1
Greenwood, Harry1
Hatfield, E A1

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The Fowler Manuscript

Fowler, Wilelmine M E

[1960s-1970s]

Bound photocopy of Wilelmine Fowler's manuscript, 'Yorkshire Sayings and Superstitions Collected in the Neighbourhood of Wakefield' ( ca. 1890s). Fowler intended the manuscript for publication in the ...

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The Greenwood Manuscript

Greenwood, Harry

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of a manuscript compiled by Harry Greenwood of Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, being memoirs of local life and traditions prior to World War Two. The manuscript appears to ...

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The Courtney Manuscript and Related Papers

1973-1974

This file contains papers relating to the republication of Margaret Courtney's 'Cornish Feasts and Folklore' (originally published Penzance: Beare, 1890). Tony Green, lecturer at the Institute of Dial...

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A New Look at an Old Manuscript and its Author

Neale, Brenda Ann

1975

Research project involving work on a manuscript of miscellaneous folklore items, collected by Wilhelmine Fowler and originally sent to the Folk Lore Society in February 1894 for possible publication i...

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The Calvert Folklore Manuscript, by George and Alfred Calvert

Annis, Paul

1978

The focus of this study is a manuscript containing items of Yorkshire folklore collected by George Calvert of Kirkby Moorside (North Yorkshire) in the early nineteenth century. Two-fifths of the manus...

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An Edition of George Butterworth's Folk Music Manuscripts

Dawney, Michael

1975

The abstract in this M.Phil. thesis states: George Butterworth collected folk music in England between 1906 and 1913. In collecting folk songs, he was sometimes accompanied by Francis Jekyll or Ralph ...

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The Passing of a Community and its Songs: A Study Based on the Unpublished Manuscript Collection of Songs from Adderbury, North Oxfordshire, made by Janet Heatley Blunt

Pickering, Michael J

1978

Ph.D. thesis concerned primarily with the social background to traditional English song, as found in the manuscript collection made by Miss Janet Blunt in Adderbury, North Oxfordshire. The Introductio...

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A Bibliography of Books in English on Witchcraft to Which is Appended a Chronological List of Some Yorkshire Witchcraft Trials

Hatfield, E A

1968

The typed part of this study is the transcribed records of Yorkshire witchcraft trials (1583-1809), copied from original manuscripts. This part also includes an introduction explaining the selection, ...

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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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Village Song and Culture: A Study Based on the Blunt Collection of Song from Adderbury, North Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

1981

This file contains a complete photocopy of a typed draft, with ms. corrections, of Pickering's study of the folk songs of Adderbury, as published by Croom Helm , 1982, [viii], 281 leaves. The book was...

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Regional Social Histories

1969-1982

This subseries contains items relating largely to the social history of specific areas, including details of folk custom. Of the subseries' eight component parts, six are photocopies of original manus...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

2 February 1971

Col Revitt, recorded at home in Worrall, talks about carol singing with the Big Set (carol band) - describes the route taken, through Worrall, Wadsley and Oughtibridge, houses visited, carols requeste...

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