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Total number of records: 23

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games23
manners and customs23
play23
rites and ceremonies23
culture20
holidays20
community life18
occupations15
nature14
entertainment events12

Top 10: People and organisations

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Gledhill, James2
Massarella, Mr2
'Titch'1
Bailey, George1
Banks, Vincent1
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Bragg, Mr1
Bragg, Mrs1
Broadhead, Albert1

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Webber, M R

[1965-1966]

Unaccompanied male/female singers, singing solos and duets. Includes May songs (May 1st garlanding, May 29th Royal Oak Day), and children's singing games recorded in the playground of a Luton Junior S...

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Dialect recording in Croft, Lancashire

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

11 Apr 1939

[Side 1] Description of friend's wedding, playing bowls after too much champagne and whisky, anecdotes about local characters. [Side 2] Conversation about threshing by hand, winnowing machines, introd...

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Stanley Ellis: An Appreciation

[1982]

A collection of articles and essays, on sheets of duplicating paper with carbon beneath, written by colleagues to mark Stanley Ellis's retirement from the School of English. This includes an introduct...

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It's Only a Game? An Account of the Leisure Time Activities of Some Children in Grimsby, Lincolnshire

Whitney, Norman F

1964

A study of children's playground and indoor games, drawing on material collected by folklorists of the past, and the collector's own fieldwork in two Grimsby schools. Four chapters present description...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Neale, Brenda Ann

25 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; male, recorded in the home of his fiancée's parents in Leeds; talks about his first meeting with his future wife [informant on tapes A571r and A572r]; first date; first impr...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Thomson, Sydney

November 1972

The children of Royal Park Primary School, Headingley, Leeds, recorded on the 21 November 1972; talk about poems and writing stories; Christmas presents, trees, decorations; collector talks about Chri...

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Sound Recordings, Somerset

Palmer, Kingsley

c. 1968-1969

[Collector announcement]; Fred Patten talks about a Devil's Stone; the local church; egg shackling (children's game); Oak Apple Day; local curses and Barrington Hill; protection against the Devil; bat...

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The Dialect of Golcar

Jacobson, Joanne

1974

M.A. project on one dialect speaker from Golcar, West Yorkshire . Analysis is made of material contained within a 34-minute tape recorded interview with Mr. Gledhill, made by Stanley Ellis in 1963. ...

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Folklore Correspondence

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1980-1982

This file contains correspondence between Tony Green and various correspondents concerning a variety of folk customs and beliefs. The file includes correspondence accompanying an article extracted fro...

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Folklore of Worsley: A Miscellaneous Collection of Tradition and Belief From the Area of Worsley, Salford Metropolitan District

Skinner, Margaret

1975

A study of the folklore of Worsley people, based on oral and printed sources. Interviews were conducted with older residents, and children at a Primary School in Walkden. The study contains a sectio...

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Sound Recordings, Shropshire

Hubbard, Wendy E

October-November 1958

[Collector announcement]; William Moore, [?recorded in Albrighton (Shropshire)], talks about his father's haulage business; harvesting; the weather; his father; a motorbike; an anecdote about retrievi...

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Sound Recording, Derbyshire

Massarella, Mr

[1960s]

Bernard Higgenbottom, recorded in Charlesworth [by male collector, from Canterbury]; talks about tenant farmers, Lord Edward Fitzalan Howard and rents; Lord Howard, second son of the 13th Duke of Norf...

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