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Total number of records: 189
Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 106 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 38 |
| Liddle Collection | 6 |
| Brotherton Collection | 5 |
| Quaker Collection | 3 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 2 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 2 |
| Janina and Zygmunt Bauman | 1 |
| Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society | 1 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 1 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed To Inquire Into the Education of the Poor | 38 |
| Orton, Harold (1898-1975) | 12 |
| Sanderson, Stewart (1924-) | 11 |
| Brunk, Wille | 5 |
| Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009) | 4 |
| Dunn, Ginette | 3 |
| Illingworth, William Norman (1902-1980) | 2 |
| Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968) | 2 |
| University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies | 2 |
| Walkley, F. | 2 |
Collected Papers
Brunk, Wille
1965-1967
This file contains papers received and collected by Wille Brunk during his assistant lectureship at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). This includes a copy of Åsa Werner-Ljungstr...
Papers on Fieldwork
[ca. 1969]
Photocopies of Donald A. MacDonald, 'Fieldwork: Collecting Oral Literature' (pp. 408-430); Warren E. Roberts, 'Fieldwork: Recording Material Culture' (pp. 431-444); George List, 'Fieldwork: Recording ...
"Papers on Gypsies"
Lloyd Weedon, Trevor
1974
This file contains photocopies of ms. papers by Lloyd Weedon on gypsies. The first paper focusses on the Gypsy Traveller communities of Ireland and Scotland, and includes discussions on Irish Gypsy Tr...
Language Papers
Strevens, Peter
1961-1966
This file contains a typed draft version of a paper for a Festschrift for Daniel Jones, 'Phonetics, Applied Linguistics, and Other Components of Language-Teaching' (1961), 15 leaves; a typed working d...
Paper on education
Baines, Sir Edward (1800-1890); National Education Union (Great Britain)
[1871]
"Read at the Social Science Contgress, held at Leeds, October 7th, 1871".
Miscellaneous Folklore Papers
1964-1979
Pamphlet by Charles Phythian-Adams, 'Local History and Folklore: A New Framework' ([London]: Standing Conference for Local History, 1975), 39 pp.; reprint from the 'Journal of the Folklore Institute',...
Haaf-net Papers
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1963-1968
This file contains multiple copies, in different formats, of Sanderson's paper, 'Haaf-net, Halve-net, Have-net: A Problem in North-West European Maritime Ethnography', delivered to the Congresse Inter...
Exam Question Papers
1970-1980
Exam question papers (some photocopied) for the M.A. and M.Phil. in Folk Life Studies, the Postgraduate Diploma in Folk Life Studies and the M.A. in Dialectology. Booklet marked Reference only.
Audio-Recording Papers
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1956-1995
Typed items relating to aspects of the audio-recording of Survey of English Dialects (SED) informants. This includes Harold Orton's proposals for an anthology of dialect recordings and a linguistic at...
Scrap Paper Note
n.d.
Torn piece of paper with a brief note on the contents of an audio recording of Nigerian folktales.
Institute Staff Papers
University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies
1952-1983
This subfonds contains papers created and collected by members of staff at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS), and includes correspondence; papers relating to the research interest...
Student Research Papers
1942-1992
The items in this subfonds present original research in Folklore and Folklife Studies, English Language and Dialectology. The subject areas covered include custom and belief, traditional narratives, t...