Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 44 records

Total number of records: 44

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
persons44
culture38
community life32
english language - dialects32
occupations28
agriculture26
nature26
animals25
food25
food crops20

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Fothergill, George William12
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)12
Fothergill, Mrs11
William5
Baldwin, John R4
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)4
Wright, John T4
Cooke, Jane A3
Kylstra, Henk E3
Orchard, Bill3

Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Hampshire and Wiltshire

Kylstra, Henk E; Wright, John T

1960-1961

William Blake, recorded in Hambledon by Henk Kylstra; talks about his work as a shepherd during the years 1919-1958; the village of Hambledon past and present; schooling; work as a shepherd boy on lea...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Unidentified male informant talks about Army life during World War Two, rationing, and relates various humorous anecdotes. [Tr. 3] René Bond talks about her experience as a fourteen year old living...

More details


Archive File

Ballads: General

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains the typed text of a song written about celebrations at Rothwell on the jubilee of George III (25 October 1809), collected by Peter Brears; a photostat copy of the text for 'England ...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

10 September 1974

George Bennett, recorded at home in Snape; sings 'Bring Back My Bonny', 'Dab a Little Powder On It, Father', 'The Laughing Policeman' [laughing only]; conversation, including GB's ?wife/?sister; talk ...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1960

Ernest Packer, recorded in Ashton Keynes [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A796r]; talks about hedging and ditching, related terminology and tools used; his father's speech; the price of beer/ale; a brewe...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Powys

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

[Collector announcement (Ellis)]; Mr. ?Richards, recorded outside in Llanafan-fawr [undated]; talks about the electricity supply to the area; fire grates in local houses; peat burning; local dwellings...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, Devon

Wright, John T

June 1958

Frank Thorne and William Edwards, in conversation in Gittisham; Mr. Thorne talks about farm work, milking, horsemen, father a tenant farmer; [gap, 1 minute]; weeding; haymaking - Mr. Edwards describes...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

2 April 1976

Sandy Kelly, recorded at home in Rosedale Abbey with his wife; plays a 1927 recording of William McEwan singing 'The Old Rugged Cross' and [ 'We are Travelling Home to Heaven']; discusses other songs ...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1969

Mr. J. Morgan, recorded at home in South Marston; sings 'Bold Sir Rylas', 'The Parson and the Suckling Pig', 'As I was a-walking through the fields so gay' [fragment]; talks about his father's singing...

More details


Archive File

An Examination of the Trials of the Lancashire Witches 1612

Daley, Janice

1976

A study divided into five chapters. The first describes the continental influence on witch beliefs in England, with sections on scepticism and the Scriptures, the influence of James I, and the social ...

More details


Archive File

"The T. W. Thompson Collection of Gypsy Folk Tales: An Edition with Commentary and Analytical Indexes"

Clinch, Angela Jane

1982

Ph.D. thesis consisting of Thomas William Thompson's folktales collected from English Gypsy Traveller communities between 1908 and 1924. The tales have been classified and arranged according to the Aa...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Cooke, Jane A

[1979-1980]

First part of this tape comprises a compilation of extracts from the collector's fieldwork recordings in Birdsedge (principally, clapping and skipping rhymes). [Tape labelled demonstration.] [Tr. 1] ...

More details