Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 16 records

Total number of records: 16

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture16
games16
human body16
persons16
play16
folklore15
folk music14
material culture10
english language - dialects9
community life8

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cooke, Jane A8
Frith, Mrs2
Frith, Toni2
Bystad, Berit1
Collins, J M Mrs1
Hinchliffe, Mrs1
Hitchens, Mrs1
Lyon, Philip1
Mccosh, Sandra1
Mckelvie, Donald1

Archive Item

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.

More details


Archive File

A Collection of Children's Games, Rhymes and Songs

Waller, Vivien M

1962

A collection of children's games, rhymes and songs, collected in the Manchester area from children between the ages of nine and fifteen, playing in the street or whilst at school. Schools visited were...

More details


Archive File

The Media and the Traditions of Modern Children

Mitchell, Elspeth Anne

1981

An examination of Middle School children and their traditions, and the effect their exposure to modern mass media has on such traditions. The study is based on written responses to the collector's que...

More details


Archive Item

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...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Cooke, Jane A

[1979-1980]

[Conclusion of interview with Mrs. Senior and Mrs. Woodhouse, recorded in Birdsedge, from tape LAVC/SRE/A083.] Explanation of ring game 'I Had a Pigeon in My Pocket' - Mrs. W. knew it as 'Lucy Locket ...

More details


Archive File

Children's Rhymes, Songs and Singing Games in Birdsedge, West Yorkshire

Cooke, Jane A

1980

[M.A.] study of children's folklore in Birdsedge, based on fieldwork carried out in the playground of Birdsedge First School, between October 1979 and April 1980, and the recollections of parent and g...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

McCosh, Sandra

[1973-1974]

Eight/nine year old girls and boys, recorded at Our Lady's Primary School in Leeds, talk about learning songs and jokes (sources include the television, comics, family and friends); the appeal of the ...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and London

Bystad, Berit

October 1973

[Collector announcement]; four schoolgirls (aged 10-11) recorded in Quarry Street playground, Leeds, describe and give examples of singing and clapping games. Recorded on the 23 October 1973. [Tr. 1] ...

More details


Archive File

Children's Games and Lore. Leeds and Liverpool

Russell, June

1978

A descriptive account of children's games and lore, based on items collected during the summer of 1977 from children at play in the street in Kirkby, Merseyside, and during September of the same year ...

More details


Archive File

An Investigation into the Play of Children Living in a Traditionally Working Class Area of Back-to-Back Housing Property, in Leeds, in May and June, 1962

Collins, J M Mrs; McKelvie, Donald

1962

A study of schoolchildren at play in Leeds, combining researches in education and folk life by two postgraduate students at the University of Leeds. Mrs. Collins was taking a Diploma in Curricular Stu...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Cooke, Jane A

[1979-1980]

First part of this tape comprises a compilation of extracts from the collector's fieldwork recordings in Birdsedge (principally, clapping and skipping rhymes). [Tape labelled demonstration.] [Tr. 1] ...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Cooke, Jane A

8 Nov 1979 - 16 Nov 1979

Children recorded in the playground of Birdsedge First School, Birdsedge, on the 8 November 1979; talking about and demonstrating the games and associated rhymes known to them. They give examples of b...

More details