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Total number of records: 58

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture57
Brotherton Collection1
Herbert Read Collection1

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community life58
culture50
communication25
english language - dialects25
folk music24
education20
manners and customs19
associations, institutions, etc16
social life and customs15
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Byrne, Packie Manus11
Nalder, Peter Francis11
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)8
Baldwin, John R3
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Agg, Albert1
Armstrong College (University of Durham)1
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Bell, Emerson1
Bishop, Mrs1

Archive File

Christmas Traditions: Student Survey, 1968-1969

1968-1969

This file contains papers produced by students for the undergraduate degree in Folk Life Studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The papers are the result of a survey exerci...

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Anglo-Swedish Scheme

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1968-1969

This file consists of original and copy correspondence, and related papers, concerning a postgraduate course in Swedish folk museums devised by Stewart Sanderson and Ingemar Liman. It includes ms. and...

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The Linguistic Atlas of England - Survey of English Dialects

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1967-1972

This file includes copy and original correspondence between Stewart Sanderson, Harold Orton, Stanley Ellis and others regarding the LAE Committee and LAE Editorial Committee, and agendas and minutes o...

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Tape Recording Transcriptions

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Barry, Michael V (1935-); Tilling, Philip M (1938-)

1968-1976

Originally housed in a file labelled Transcriptions of M.R. for St./Db. RLS. + Miscellaneous Transcriptions. Includes typed transcriptions of Survey of English Dialects (SED) informants from audio-rec...

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Fishing Questionnaire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1966-1968

Ms. draft and typed copies of an agenda for a meeting to discuss the progress of the Fishing Questionnaire; typed copies of a covering letter sent out with the completed questionnaire to institutions ...

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Tristan da Cunha

1968

Pp. 399-400 of the 'British Dental Journal' for 5 November 1968. This originally formed part of an article surveying dental cavities and associated problems on Tristan da Cunha. A paragraph including ...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Nalder, Peter Francis

[1960s]

Packie Byrne, singing in the Whip Pub, Leeds. Also plays the whistle, spoons, bones and castanets. Recorded May 1968. [Tr. 1] Packie Byrne, singing in an unidentified folk club in Huddersfield . Als...

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Inns and Inn Signs

Trevette, Veronica

1968

A study of forty-five North London inns and their signs, and the roles they play(ed) in local history and geography. Sections provide a general introduction to the role of the inn, the brewery in medi...

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A Critique of the Methodology of Robert Redfield

Paine, Robert

1968

Four photocopies of Robert Paine's article, 'A Critique of the Methodology of Robert Redfield: Folk Culture and Other Concepts', from an offprint from 'Ethnos' (1968), pp. 161-172. This also includes ...

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Exhibition Programmes and På Gång

Riksutställningar (Sweden)

1968-1985

This file contains printed items issued by the Riksutställningar (Swedish Travelling Exhibitions) organisation. These include a specially designed folder containing Swedish and English guides to the ...

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Gazette

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1961-1969

This file contains correspondence relating to Stewart Sanderson's professional duties, and includes original and copy papers. It includes correspondence concerning the University Council (July and Oct...

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Up-Helly-Aa

Nott, Dorothy A

1969

A study of the mid-winter festival celebrated annually in the Shetland Islands, based on research carried out in the summer of 1968, and the witnessing of the event in Lerwick in January 1969. The s...

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