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conduct of life6
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folklore4
manners and customs4
rites and ceremonies4
community life3
folk music3
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Wilson, David L2
Almond, Rose1
Ashby, Alice1
Bell, Emerson1
Bullard, John1
Bullard, Kathy1
Bullard, Margaret1
Bullard, Scott1
Chamberlain, John S1
Child, Lydia Maria Francis (1802-1880)1

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Archive Item

Sound Recordings, London and Kent

Wetton, Anne Lindsey

July-August 1973

Compilation of field recordings made in Abbey Wood, Charlton, Plumstead and Swanley. Six informants sing a selection of popular love songs, including 'Dolly Gray', 'The Old Rustic Bridge', 'The Rose o...

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Student Folklore Dossiers

1971-1982

Student folklore dossiers, variously subtitled Scheme B - Folk Life 1: First Term Exercise, and Folk Life Exercise: First Term. Each compilation includes the student's biographical details, and items ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Wilson, David L

22 April 1972

Emerson Bell and Donald Uchtman, recorded in Leeds, talking about American university and college campus folklore: freshmen's dormitories and spelling words by lit and unlit windows; no class unity at...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Wilson, David L

8 November 1971

John Bullard, Margaret Bullard, Scott Bullard and Kathy Bullard, recorded in Leeds, talking about American university and college campus folklore: freshman week; orientation events and feats; class so...

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Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire

Chamberlain, John S

July/August 1961

Herbert Sykes of Wetwang relates items of weatherlore - rainbows, moon (and associated rhymes), wind direction, horses' behaviour/crows' behaviour (nesting) as signs of weather; Mrs. Sykes relates say...

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The girl's own book

Child, Lydia Maria Francis (1802-1880)

1850

'Works published by William Tegg & co.' - last 16 pages.

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