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Total number of records: 68

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture68
folk music68
english language - dialects53
community life44
occupations34
play32
agriculture28
manners and customs24
sports23
entertainment events17

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sullivan, Keith Frederick68
Wilkinson, Jim10
Simpson, Thomas9
Hart, William7
Wilkinson, Mrs7
Gallon, Luke5
Hayes, Raymond (1909-2000)5
Bennett, Mrs4
Bennett, Ray4
Ellerby, George4

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

29 November 1976

[Collector announcement]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; discusses arrangements for further interviews with KS, and JW noting down the songs he sings; talks about learning songs; carol s...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

7 February 1975

[Collector announcement]; George Ellerby, recorded at The Eskdale pub in Castleton; sings 'Muckspreader' [to 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough'], and two unidentified songs. Juke box music aud...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 December 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about his song repertoire; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife'; recitation about two Yorkshire lads in London; re...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

5 January 1977

[Collector announcement]; Jim Wilkinson and Mike Hodgson [son of Bede Hodgson], recorded at JW's house in Tranmire. JW sings 'MacPherson's Rant'; MH talks about his father singing, and learning 'Take ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

1 January 1977

[Collector announcement]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; sings 'Spinning Wheel', 'Boston Harbour' [daughter Rachel Wilkinson joins in the chorus], 'Wild Mountain Thyme', 'Banks of the Oh...

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Popular Singing Traditions and Cultural Change in the Old North Riding of Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

1978

Ph.D. divided into five parts, twelve chapters. Following the Introduction, which gives an overview of folksong scholarship and tradition, the thesis contains chapters on the village of Ugthorpe where...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

2 April 1975

[Collector announcement]; George Ellerby, recorded outside his home, Forest Lodge Farm, in Castleton; talks about the songs he knows, and the problems of writing them down in Yorkshire dialect; his so...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

12 December 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now', [ 'I'm Walking Behind You'], [two unidentified], 'If You Were the Only Girl in the Wor...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

10 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; John White, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; sings fragment of 'Her Own Boy Jack'; talks about the game of quoits - trophies, league, weight of quoit, young players, rules and s...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

4 January 1977

[Collector announcement]; Joseph White and his mother, recorded at their home in Ugthorpe. JW talks about the song 'The Fisherman of England', and his learning it and singing it at the Ugthorpe quoits...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

6 January 1977

[Collector announcement]; George Ellerby, recorded outside his home, Forest Lodge Farm, in Castleton; talks about the songs he sang on previous recording sessions; copyright in songs; making (amateur)...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

28 November 1976

[Collector announcement]; Tommy Gallon, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about songs and singers at quoits club social events; Ugthorpe Quoits Club - membership (extent of Ugthorpe Parish), prizes,...

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