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Total number of records: 35

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culture35
english language - dialects35
folk music27
persons15
community life11
manners and customs10
play10
folk dancing7
folk drama7
holidays6

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette8
Baldwin, John R4
Green, Anthony E (1943-)4
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)3
Agg, Albert2
Cook, E. T.2
Cook, R. G.2
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)2
Lyons, James2
Ogg, M C2
Lincolnshire Folk Drama: The Lady
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Lincolnshire Folk Drama: The Lady

Ogg, M C

April 1979

Ms. illustration, drawn in felt-tipped pen by M. C. Ogg of Colby (Humberside), of The Lady, a character found in Lincolnshire wooing plays. The illustration was amongst a series of maps and illustra...

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Sword Dance Team
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Sword Dance Team

Ward, Olive

[1968-1969]

Copy of a photograph taken in 1937 of the Goathland Sword Dance Team in costume, Goathland (North Yorkshire). From left to right, the characters are the Captain, Tom, the Gentleman, the Lady, Betty an...

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Sword Dance Team
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Sword Dance Team

Welford, E B Mrs

[1968-1969]

Copy of a photograph of the Goathland Sword Dance Team in costume, Goathland (North Yorkshire). The team is made up of nine adult men. Four of the men wear costumes made of brightly patterned material...

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Sound Recordings, Lancashire and North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

1970-1971

Mr. Exley, recorded in Colne (Lancashire), talks about his hobby collecting country stories; dialect in country humour; relates stories concerning a vicar and a villager, a farmer and a late farmworke...

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Sound Recording, Worcestershire

Raven, Jon

November 1969

George Derrington, recorded in Great Malvern; introduces and then sings 'The Carnal and the Crane', about a carrion crow and crane discussing the birth of Jesus, and which incorporates two religious l...

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Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1964-1966

Recording of James Lyons [dubbed from damaged unedited master]; sings 'McCaffery', [3 unidentified], 'Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime', [unidentified fragment], children's singing game [ 'The wheel...

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Thomas the Rhymer

Lyle, Emily Buchanan (1932-)

1965-1969

This file contains a copy of Emily Lyle's typed reconstruction of the words of 'Thomas the Rhymer', based on 'Thomas of Erceldoune', with line references and references to the ms. versions used and in...

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Higgs, Judith

March 1973

[Announcement, made by collector's mother, a nurse visiting the informant]; Richard Mills and his wife recorded in Walsall Wood; Mr. Mills sings 'The Old Folks Jim', 'A Lady in Hospital' and 'I'm Foll...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

McCosh, Sandra

[1973-1974]

Eight/nine year old girls and boys, recorded at Our Lady's Primary School in Leeds, talk about learning songs and jokes (sources include the television, comics, family and friends); the appeal of the ...

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Sussex Recipes

Lister, Sue

1967

A study of Sussex recipes, based on both printed sources and interviews with local people. The introductory section provides some historical background, descriptions of utensils, an ice house and a ba...

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The Folklore and Traditions of Schoolchildren in Hull and Beverley Between 1890 and 1910

Hawkins, Edith Mary

1969

M.Phil. study of children's folklore in Hull and Beverley, in two parts. Part One contains an introductory chapter offering definitions of folklore and traditions, the term school children, an outline...

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Jokes, Rhymes and Language

1969-1979

This file includes a mounted newspaper article from the 'Yorkshire Post'(19 November 1979), on children's jokes and Sandra McCosh's fieldwork collecting jokes from schoolchildren in Leeds for her M.A....

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