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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)78
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Wright, John T13
Barry, Michael V (1935-)12
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Archive File

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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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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Archive Sub-series

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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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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Archive Item

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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A New Look at an Old Manuscript and its Author

Neale, Brenda Ann

1975

Research project involving work on a manuscript of miscellaneous folklore items, collected by Wilhelmine Fowler and originally sent to the Folk Lore Society in February 1894 for possible publication i...

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The Calvert Folklore Manuscript, by George and Alfred Calvert

Annis, Paul

1978

The focus of this study is a manuscript containing items of Yorkshire folklore collected by George Calvert of Kirkby Moorside (North Yorkshire) in the early nineteenth century. Two-fifths of the manus...

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Archive Sub-series

Fieldwork and Research

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1962-1978

Papers relating to Stewart Sanderson's research activities during his time as Director of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). Sanderson's interests appear to have been varied, with...

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Folklore Surveys

1962-1967

Folklore surveys and research exercises undertaken by students at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The topics covered include a study of children's play in Leeds; a survey of fo...

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Field-work and Documentation in Folk-Life Studies

Jenkins, J Geraint

[1960]

Two photocopies of an article copied from an unidentified publication. The article is a modified version of a paper read at a symposium on folklife research at the School of Scottish Studies, Universi...

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