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culture51
english language - dialects51
games51
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folk music36
persons35
community life31
folklore23
manners and customs23
holidays16

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Cooke, Jane A5
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)5
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Mckelvie, Donald2
Russell, Ian2
Waller, Vivien M2
Blake, Mr William1
Broadhead, Albert1
Broadhead, Bernard1
Bystad, Berit1

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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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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...

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Quoits: The Poddle
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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...

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Quoits: The Poddle
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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...

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Quoits: The Poddle
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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 ...

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Quoits
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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 ...

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Quoits
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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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