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Total number of records: 1100

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Archives1099
Objects1

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1100
University Archive1

Top 10: Subject

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community life1100
culture1100
english language - dialects621
occupations480
education359
manners and customs351
nature315
folk music304
agriculture263
food261

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England30
Northumberland29
Embleton11
Lowick11
Allendale1
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Earsdon1
Ellington1
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Hedden-On-The-Wall1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)111
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)82
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)61
Dunn, Ginette53
Fothergill, George William46
Sullivan, Keith Frederick44
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)33
Wright, John T22
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)20
Brunk, Wille15

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From 19001096

Archive Sub-series

Swedish Folklife Surveys

[1957-1970]

Surveys co-ordinated by the Institute for Folk Life Studies (Lund University), the Institute for Dialect and Folklore Research at Uppsala ( Landsmåls- och folkminnesarkivet i Uppsala), and an atlas o...

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Atlas of Swedish Folk Culture

Kungl. Gustav Adolf's Akademien (Uppsala, Sweden)

1957

The 'Atlas Över Svensk Folkkultur' [Atlas of Swedish Folk Culture], produced by the Kungl. Gustav Adolf's Akademien [Royal Gustav Adolf's Academy], contains an introduction by the Editor, Sigurd Erix...

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The Study of Folk Life: and its part in the Defence of Civilisation

Peate, Iorwerth Cyfeiliog (1901-1982)

[1959]

Five photocopies of Iorwerth C. Peate's Presidential Address, delivered to Section H (Anthropology) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at their Glasgow meeting in September 1958...

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Archive File

Current Research File

University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies

1976-1981

This file contains typed lists, with ms. annotations, of Work in Progress amongst students based at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies. The lists include names, details of research and sta...

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Urban Folklore

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1964-1980

This file contains items on contemporary legends and folklore, and includes an ms. letter from A. Tozer (to Stewart Sanderson?) on modern folktales (16 December 1964), prompted by an article in 'The G...

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Teaching Notes

Brunk, Wille

1961-1968

This subseries includes notes created by Brunk during his studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folklore Research at Uppsala, Sweden; and ms. and typed lecture and tutorial notes, and handouts, used...

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Folklivsforskning

Brunk, Wille

1961

This file contains chiefly ms. notes, in Swedish, apparently created by Brunk during his studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folklore Research at Uppsala ( Landsmåls- och folkminnesarkivet i Upps...

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Archive Series

Folklife Surveys

1955-1979

This series contains national, regional and local surveys of folklore and folklife undertaken in Europe and North America through universities and government-funded Commissions. It provides examples o...

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Other Folklore and Folklife Surveys

1955-1979

Papers relating to surveys undertaken by several English universities and the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, and examples of maps from folklife atlases for Austria, Holland, Portugal, Swi...

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Institute Open Day Exhibition Captions

[1978]

The captions in this file accompanied the photographs exhibited at a University of Leeds Open Day in November 1978 (see LAVC/ARC/4/3). They include original typescript versions, describing both the sc...

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Studies in Folk Life Exhibition

[1960s]

Card-mounted photograph of the display board at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies' Studies in Folk Life Exhibition. The display items include an example of an ms. research notebook, indiv...

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Survey of Domestic Eating Arrangements, 1980-1981

1980-1981

This file contains papers written by students of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) during an exercise forming part of the undergraduate degree in Folk Life Studies. The students w...

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