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Total number of records: 1254

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items854
Archives400

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1254
University Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture324
archive administration312
english language - dialects224
community life215
education131
occupations95
folklore88
english language87
communication68
folk music58

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
North Yorkshire (England)13
Scotland10
Great Britain8
Leeds (England)8
Conistone (England)7
Sweden7
Yorkshire (England)7
Scandinavia5
England4
West Yorkshire (England)4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)93
Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)48
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)42
University of Leeds. Department of English Language and Medieval English Literature37
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)36
Nordiska Museet (Stockholm, Sweden)25
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey23
Barry, Michael V (1935-)19
Halliday, Wilfrid J17
Rydland, Kurt14

Count of Earliest date

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From 180084
From 19001070
From 20006

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189972
Up to 19991061
Up to latest27

Archive File

University Archive

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1960-1980

This file contains original and copy correspondence, and related papers, concerning Stewart Sanderson's activities as an academic folklorist. Its contents seem to have been selected by Sanderson for d...

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Archive and Library Guide

[1970-1980]

The first page in this file is headed Guide to the Archive and Library, and the complete item includes information on the arrangement and location of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies' ar...

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Folklore archives general index

University of Khartoum. Institute of African and Asian Studies

July 1976

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Ulster Dialect Archive bulletin

Ulster Folk Museum

no.3 (July 1965)-no.5 (January/September 1966).

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Ulster Dialect Archive Bulletin

Ulster Folk Museum. Dialect Archive

1965

This file contains issues 1 and 2 of the 'Ulster Dialect Archive Bulletin' (January and April 1965). The bulletins are accompanied by a typed letter from G. B. Adams to Harold Orton, and a leaflet and...

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Archives et documents : micro-édition

Leroi-Gourhan, André (1911-1986); Guiart, Jean; Institut d'ethnologie (Musée de l'homme)

1974

1976-1977; 1980; 1982

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Lists from the Archive of Folk Song

Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)

1971-1974

This file contains lists produced by and for, and information about, the Archive of Folk Song at the Music Division of the Library of Congress. The file includes two versions of the paper, 'The Archiv...

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture, (Survey of English Dialects, and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies)

University of Leeds

1836-2003

The Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture comprises the combined multiple media holdings of the archives of the Survey of English Dialects (ca. 1946-1978) directed by Harold Orton, and the University of...

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The tape recording of dialect for linguistic sound archives : some experiences and views connected with recording work in Sweden

Hedblom, Folke (1908-)

[1961]

Reprinted from Svenska Landsmål och Svenskt Folkliv : Archiv des Traditions Populaires Suédoises, 1961. Catalogued from caption title.

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Notes on Gramophonic Recording of Yorkshire Dialects

Bruff, Harold J L

1926

Copy of a typed paper delivered to the Yorkshire Dialect Society, and subsequently issued in a limited edition of 50 copies. The paper outlines a proposal for the construction of a sound archive of Yo...

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