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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Wright, John T5
Bergal, Nancy Ann4
Curtin, John3
Dunn, Ginette3
Pickering, Michael J3
Siporin, Rae Lee3
Sullivan, Keith Frederick3
Ernest2
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)2

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Education and science : presidential address, 1891

Graham, C C (of Hull); Hull Literary Club

1891

At head of title: Hull Literary Club.

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Bergal, Nancy Ann

27 January 1980

Peter Thorp, recorded at home in Leeds; talks about his interest in folk music; carol singing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day morning in Leeds - tradition declined due to slum clearances, break up ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

29 November 1976

[Collector announcement, states date as 30 November]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; talks about Yorkshire monologues; thoughts on poetry and painting and sad songs; sings 'Greenland Wha...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Bergal, Nancy Ann

13 December 1979

John Curtin, recorded in his home in the Armley area of Leeds. Biographical details; interest in Scottish Country Dance bands; accordion, guitar playing as a teenager; distinction made between traditi...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Bergal, Nancy Ann

25 January 1980

Recorded in John Curtin's home in Leeds, and at the Grove Folk Club (also in Leeds). John Curtin sings an unidentified song, with guitar accompaniment; and tells a story of catching wild boar in Bradf...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Wilson, David L

17 November 1971

Reginald Vaughan and Donald Stack, recorded in Leeds, talking about American university and college campus folklore from the 1950s: freshmen initiation rites - first informant says none at Harvard Uni...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Outhwaite, Paul N

October 1963

Benjamin Harrison, recorded in Farnley; talks about his working life, including work in a coal yard, coal deliveries, working with horses; harvest time; farm labourers' food; work during the summer ti...

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Fifty Years of Wragby Life

Sutton, Diane

1980

A dissertation which looks at life in the Lincolnshire village of Wragby during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. The information it presents is based on the memories and printed ephemer...

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Fieldnotes and Interview Transcriptions

Mackay, Donald; Jackson, Margaret

1970s

Typed notes from some fieldwork in South Yorkshire, relating to the tradition of singing local Christmas carols in pubs in the region. These notes refer to a visit in November 1970 to Penistone Workin...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Wright, John T

1958

[Collector announcement]; Frank Gist, recorded at home in Kilkhampton on the 25 October 1958; talks about farm work on leaving school; the family carriers business; goods transported and for whom; tra...

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Sound Recording, Northumberland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

April 1961

[Announcement: probably recorded by Stanley Ellis in 1961 when he returned to check certain responses.]; Willie Pitt, retired farmworker and waggoner recorded in Embleton; talks about a recent shipwre...

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