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manners and customs60
social life and customs60
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holidays28
home21
folk music20
communication19
english language - dialects18

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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)3
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)3
Bell, Brigid M2
Bell, Mary2
Bell, Robert2
Bell, Sheila2
Graham, Jacqueline P2
Green, Anthony E (1943-)2
Lyons, Bernard2
Lyons, Gillian2

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Archive File

"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...

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Papers on Folk Collections, Etc.

1836-1985

The bulk of items in this file are dated 1959-1985. The file contains leaflets, printed volumes and other items mostly concerning folk-related museums and collections. It includes Frank Atkinson's pri...

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Paper Making, Skin and Leather: Photocards
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Paper Making, Skin and Leather: Photocards

[1962-1984]

A curated collection of mounted photographs relating to ‘Paper Making, Skin and Leather’. This photo file is one of 57 thematically categorised photo files that were likely created as part of the ...

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Christmas Traditions: Student Survey, 1979-1980

1979-1980

This file contains papers produced by students for the undergraduate degree in Folk Life Studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The papers are the result of a survey exerci...

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Christmas Traditions: Student Survey, 1978-1979

1978-1979

This file contains papers produced by students for the undergraduate degree in Folk Life Studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The papers are the result of a survey exerci...

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Leeds Teaching Notes

Brunk, Wille

[1966-1968]

This file contains papers created by Brunk for use in tutorials and lectures given to undergraduate students at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The papers contained within this...

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Bonfire Traditions

1971-1977

This file contains items relating to bonfire traditions, and includes an anonymous ms. paper by an Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) student on bonfire traditions amongst other IDFLS ...

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Dressing-Up the Bride

Buckland, Theresa Jill

November 1976

Outfit worn by Kathleen Evans, a tea factory worker from Crewe (Cheshire), when her workmates dressed her up on her last day of work before her wedding. In the photograph, the outfit is worn by the br...

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Archive Series

I: Popular Belief and Practice

1966-1981

This subseries contains items relating to aspects of popular belief and practice. This includes items on popular beliefs and superstitions; a paper on superstitions in Imo State, Nigeria; the script o...

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Traditional Methods of Threatening/Frightening Children

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1970

This file contains a paper on traditional threats, using information collected by Tony Green from groups of first- and second-year pupils at Roundhay School, Leeds, in March 1970. The pupils were aske...

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Folk Life Bibliographies

University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies

[1960-1979]

This file includes a number of typed bibliographies, most of which relate to the teaching of Folk Life Studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). An introductory bibliography, ...

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Pregnancy and Birth

1964-1976

This file contains items relating to pregnancy and birth customs, and includes a typed paper by Mrs. A. Pennie on baby lore and luck in love (1964), 5 leaves; a photocopy of Audrey Chamberlain's artic...

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