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Total number of records: 104

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culture104
games104
play104
persons70
folk music64
community life60
folklore60
english language - dialects51
manners and customs49
occupations35

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cooke, Jane A10
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)5
Waller, Vivien M4
Hawley, Elizabeth K3
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Russell, Ian3
Wright, John T3
Bystad, Berit2
Chamberlain, John S2

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Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire

Chamberlain, John S

July/August 1961

Schoolboy [? Stephen Sissons, recorded in a pub in Wetwang] describes children's games - jacks, hide and seek (including the dipping rhyme 'One Potato Two Potato'), Block (similar to hide and seek), B...

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Notes for Thesis

Whitfield, Jean

1963

This file contains draft ms./typed notes relating to a proposed thesis, 'Survey Work in Folklore: A Critical Examination of Sources and Methods'. The author, Jean Whitfield, is described by Angela Cli...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Harwood, Lancashire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

Feb 1954

[Side 1] Polly tells series of anecdotes: recalls woman's 'boa' [= fur stole] blowing off in wind and being mistaken for snake and buried in churchyard, remembers sexton digging grave early one mornin...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ingham, Julianne A; Andrew, Yolande

December 1979

Examples of games, rhymes and songs collected from children at Quarry Mount Primary School in Leeds.

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Sound Recordings, Greater Manchester

Waller, Vivien M

1961-1962

Schoolgirls give examples of skipping rhymes and chants, explanations of circle and chasing games. Edited compilation of fieldwork recordings made in schools in Salford, Eccles, Hulme and Walkden ( Gr...

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The Games of Junior School Children

Waters, Janice

1964

A descriptive account of schoolchildren's games, with reference to the printed collections of a number of childlore scholars. Textual transcriptions are included, but it is unclear whether these were ...

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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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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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Sound Recording, Norway

Bystad, Berit

4 April 1973

Recordings made in Norway. Schoolchildren give examples of singing games and rhymes; [?collector announcement]; Norwegian women sing and talk about singing games and rhymes; [?collector announcement];...

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Children's Games: Student Surveys

1979-1980

This file contains surveys of children's games collected by students at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) from schoolchildren in Leeds. These include Elspeth Mitchell's ms. transc...

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Sound Recording, Derbyshire

Russell, Ian

September-October 1970

Children of Unstone Community Junior Middle School, Unstone, give examples of clapping, singing, ring and skipping games. Recorded in school and in the playground.

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