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Sword Dance Team
Ward, Olive
[1968-1969]
Copy of a photograph taken in 1937 of the Goathland Sword Dance Team in costume, Goathland (North Yorkshire). From left to right, the characters are the Captain, Tom, the Gentleman, the Lady, Betty an...
Sword Dance Team
Welford, E B Mrs
[1968-1969]
Copy of a photograph of the Goathland Sword Dance Team in costume, Goathland (North Yorkshire). The team is made up of nine adult men. Four of the men wear costumes made of brightly patterned material...
Sound Recordings, Stockton-on-Tees
Schrut, Judith Lynne
23 January 1977
Margaret Postgate, Trevor Postgate and George Robinson (all of Thornaby) discuss domestic crafts - dressmaking, sewing, knitting, quilt-making, embroidery, enamelling, horticulture, bee-keeping. [Tr. ...
Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
18 Sep 1952
[Side 1] Fred tells anecdote about journey with grandfather to Newbiggin and Newcastle, remembers sitting on back of bus to avoid embarrassment as grandfather had habit of striking up conversation wit...
The Development of Research into Children's Folklore in England
Chamberlain, John S
1961
M.A. research dissertation comprising essays intended to show the general development of responsible interest in children's folklore since the late eighteenth century. The study assesses the importanc...
Clothing and Footwear - General
1966-1971
This file contains items relating to clothing and footwear in general, and includes a photocopy of the section on clothing from a chapter on material culture, explaining aspects to consider when resea...
Sound Recording, Leicester
Edge, Christine
1965
Various informants talk of Cat Anna ( Leicester woman regarded as a witch), a secret tunnel used by Lady Jane Grey, Leicester Castle, witch burnings, divination (future husband, sex of unborn baby); C...
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 ...
Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]
Bryon, Fiona
18 December 1980
Mrs. Blackburn talks about her work in the Leeds tailoring industry: Parents' occupations; sewing from childhood; first job - ladies' dress factory in Woodhouse Lane - machinist, female boss; next job...
The Folklore and Traditions of Schoolchildren in Hull and Beverley Between 1890 and 1910
Hawkins, Edith Mary
1969
M.Phil. study of children's folklore in Hull and Beverley, in two parts. Part One contains an introductory chapter offering definitions of folklore and traditions, the term school children, an outline...
Jokes, Rhymes and Language
1969-1979
This file includes a mounted newspaper article from the 'Yorkshire Post'(19 November 1979), on children's jokes and Sandra McCosh's fieldwork collecting jokes from schoolchildren in Leeds for her M.A....
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
11 November 1977
Ugthorpe quoits team Quoits Supper, recorded at the Black Bull pub in Ugthorpe; Keith Sullivan sings 'The Dalesman's Litany' [4 of 6 verses]; [unidentified] sings 'Mother Macree'; John Pearson sings '...