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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...
Nottinghamshire Rhymes
Millington, Peter T
1972
This file contains photocopies of typed Nottinghamshire rhymes collected by Peter Millington. The rhymes include children's songs and rhymes, skipping rhymes and singing games. The papers include song...
Quoits: The Poddle
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
July 1964
Adult male holding a walking stick as a marker at which pocket knives are thrown to decide turns and partners at the start of a quoits game. A single knife can just be seen lodged in the ground near t...
Quoits: The Poddle
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
July 1964
Adult male holding a walking stick as a marker at which pocket knives are thrown to decide turns and partners at the start of a quoits game. Four knives can be seen lodged in the ground near to the wa...
Quoits: The Poddle
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
July 1964
Adult males deciding turns and partners at the start of a quoits game. The men have used a walking stick as a marker, at which pocket knives have been thrown in order to decide turns. This process is ...
Quoits
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
June-August 1964
Two teenage boys playing quoits on a grass verge by the road at Castle Bolton ( Wensleydale). One of the boys has just thrown a quoit. Adult males from the village look on. Mounted on Photo File card ...
Quoits
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
June-August 1964
Two teenage boys playing quoits on a grass verge by the road at Castle Bolton ( Wensleydale). One of the boys is just about to throw a quoit. Adult males from the village look on. Mounted on Photo Fil...
Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian
March-April 1971
Col Goodison, recorded in his home in Sheffield, singing and in conversation. Sings fragment of 'Give Me the Spade'; talks about other songs/singers, including his father; Knur and Spell; Christmas ca...
Sound Recordings, Greater Manchester
Waller, Vivien M
1961-1962
Schoolgirls recite/chant/sing skipping rhymes; also ball bouncing and counting-out rhymes, song (some parodies), explanations of (chasing) games (including 'Farmer Farmer') and the circle game 'Sally ...
The Folk Songs of Bedfordshire
Webber, M R
1966
A study of songs collected from three adult informants living in Bedfordshire, and from children at a Luton Junior School.
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Lyon, Philip
1974
Schoolchildren, recorded in Calderdale; give examples of singing games, rhymes, chants and chasing games [recorded in a ?school hall, with female teacher present guiding/prompting the children]. The c...
The Lore, Language and Games of Children
Wellsted, Catherine
[1970s]
This file contains a photocopy of Catherine Wellsted's typed study of children's playground and street activities, undertaken as part of a course at the Eaton Hall College of Education in Retford (Not...