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persons12
culture9
manners and customs8
community life7
english language - dialects6
social life and customs6
folk music5
education4
play4
death3

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Baldwin, John R2
Agg, Albert1
Bell, Emerson1
Brooks, Mrs. D.1
Cliffe, David E1
Cliffe, Mr1
Cliffe, Mrs1
Cobb, A.1
Cook, R. G.1
Coombs, Mr.1
Children and Bonfire
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Children and Bonfire

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1965

Children climbing on a pile of wood and discarded furniture which has been built up into a bonfire (unlit at this point), on wasteland in Dewsbury (West Yorkshire).

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Sound Recording, Nigeria

Olayemi, Val

[1968-1978]

Orin Ibeji (Songs in Praise of Twins). Woman and child sing two unidentified songs; woman and child[ren] (new informants) sings three unidentified songs. The original recordings were made in Ibadan in...

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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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Sports and Athletic Games

1961-1974

This file contains items relating to sports and games of athletic ability, skill, strength and endurance. This includes a copy of 'The Ancient Haxey Hood Game (An Ancestor of Football?)', by J. W. ff....

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Popular Belief: Miscellaneous

1968-1981

This file contains a photocopy of Miss Wilelmine M. E. Fowler's paper on Yorkshire folklore, from 'Memorials of Old Yorkshire', ed. by T. M. Fallow (London: George Allen, 1909), pp. 286-305; a copy of...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Wilson, David L

22 April 1972

Emerson Bell and Donald Uchtman, recorded in Leeds, talking about American university and college campus folklore: freshmen's dormitories and spelling words by lit and unlit windows; no class unity at...

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Dialect and Linguistic Pamphlets

1940-1974

This file contains 19 dialect- and linguistics-related pamphlets, offprints and reprints, deposited in the Dialect File. Many include inscriptions from the author to Harold Orton. Includes: - Der La...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire

Baldwin, John R

1968-1969

Mrs. D. Brooks and Mr. Coombs [?brother and sister], recorded in Shipton-under-Wychwood in 1968. Mrs. Brooks describes her husband playing a horse game. [Tr. 1] Mr. Coombs sings 'The Old Leather Bri...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1968-1969

Session recorded at Swindon Folksingers' Club in 1968 [?possibly a regional English Folk Dance and Song Society- organised Christmas event]; accordion tune; unidentified male sings [? 'Can You Dance t...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Morson, I F

1966-1969

Jim Willding, recorded in the Baker's Arms pub, Oxford, on the 5 December 1967; sings [unidentified, with accordion], 'Cock of the North'; conversation; 'Banks of the Sweet Primroses', 'Daisybell', 'I...

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Coffin Carrier

Short, Ian W

1967

Old wooden hand-drawn coffin carrier, found in Woodhouse Cemetery, Leeds (West Yorkshire). Mounted on Photo File card.

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Sound Recording, [Cheshire]

Cliffe, David E

January 1968

Male [Mr. Cliffe of Macclesfield] sings '[Banks of the Brahmaputra]', "As Tommy was Walking" [1st line], with his [wife], [nonsense song], "Number One" [1st line].

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