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Total number of records: 7

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culture7
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oral traditions7
play7
community life5
animals4
folk music4
manners and customs4
nature4
education3

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Billy1
Dunn, Ginette1
Fursman, Mr1
Higgenbottom1
Higginbottom, Mr Bernard1
Hood, William1
Massarella, Mr1
Milburn, Charlie1
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)1
Panheinen, Ossi1

Archive File

Two Scottish Riddles

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1967

This file contains three photocopies of Sanderson's paper on Scottish riddles about bells and tongs and their variants, from 'Folk Life', number 5 (1967), pp. 104-107.

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Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

10 Mar 1939

[Side 1] Florrie recites the story of the little mouse and the old tom cat in Rothbury dialect; Florrie, Billy and Charlie talk about fishing (first few seconds inaudible). [Side 2] Billy and Charlie ...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

July 1974

Lenny Savage, recorded at home in Snape on the 18 July 1974; talks about his childhood, work on a rabbit farm and with steam engines; singing and step dancing (including women dancers) at the Ship Inn...

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Archive File

Traditional Song: General

1963-1979

This file contains items relating to aspects of traditional music, and includes a copy of 'The Health of Man', a collection of traditional songs from Bedfordshire, Yorkshire, Suffolk and Lancashire, c...

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Sound Recording, Derbyshire

Massarella, Mr

[1960s]

Bernard Higgenbottom, recorded in Charlesworth [by male collector, from Canterbury]; talks about tenant farmers, Lord Edward Fitzalan Howard and rents; Lord Howard, second son of the 13th Duke of Norf...

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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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Sound Recordings, [Dorset]

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Paull [location not given] relates his experiences of fighting in World War One; the Somme in 1917 and being wounded; convalescence in Wyke Regis; Paschendale Ridge; the Somme; working life after ...

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