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culture7
folk drama7
oral traditions7
english language - dialects6
folk music5
manners and customs5
holidays4
literature and folklore4
occupations4
community life3

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Baldwin, John R1
Brown, I. M.1
Cook, R. G.1
Cotmore, Mrs1
Green, A.1
Green, Anthony E (1943-)1
Greenwood, Harry1
Langrick, Annie E1
Maycock, T.1
Miller, T. J.1

Archive File

Verse: General

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains a typed copy of Edward K. Miller's paper, 'Local Chauvinism and Life-Experience Transfiguration in British Monologues', with photocopied notes and appendices, 19, [7] leaves. The ap...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire

Baldwin, John R

1967-1969

Bill Whiting, recorded at home in Longcot in 1967; sings 'Rosemary Lane', 'The Little Thatched Cottage', 'The Knife in the Window', 'The Old Dog', 'He's gone where the good ponies go' [fragment], 'The...

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The Phonology of the Dialect of Bubwith in the East Riding of Yorkshire

Langrick, Annie E

1948

A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Bubwith, East Yorkshire. An introduction to the village and the area is followed by six chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

26 October 1973

Frank Weatherill, recorded at home in Danby; sings an unidentified song about farmers' lads; relates anecdotes/stories regarding a dog and a hare, dialect, friends reunited, father quarrying and workm...

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The Greenwood Manuscript

Greenwood, Harry

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of a manuscript compiled by Harry Greenwood of Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, being memoirs of local life and traditions prior to World War Two. The manuscript appears to ...

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The Oral History and Traditions of the Lancashire Textile Workers

Taylor, Monica

1972

A study of some features of working, domestic and recreational life in the cotton town of Haslingden in Lancashire, in the early part of the twentieth century. The description of such aspects is based...

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Archive Sub-series

Village and Farm

1960-1973

This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items on village and farm life, and related topics. This includes W. E. Tate's paper, 'Parish Records and the English Village Community', extracted f...

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