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Total number of records: 61

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SubjectCount
manners and customs61
rites and ceremonies61
culture57
holidays47
folk music45
english language - dialects39
community life29
social life and customs25
folk drama24
occupations23

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Harrop, Peter K7
Sullivan, Keith Frederick6
Dunn, Ginette5
Green, Anthony E (1943-)5
Baldwin, John R4
Calvert, Valerie E2
Cook, E. T.2
Cook, Mrs. E. T.2
Kanellou-Thanassoulas, Alexandra2
Newman, T.2

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Sound Recording, New Zealand

Dunn, Ginette

[1973]

Male Maori informant, recorded in Gisborne, New Zealand; talks about black magic, song composition, laments, song collection, memorisation, inheritance of song, Maori ancestors and Maori god, teaching...

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Sound Recording, Greater Manchester

Edwards, Janet E

[1967]

The collector introduces and sings four songs associated with May Day celebrations in Salford. These include a Molly Dancers' song, which the collector states as having been sung in the city in the 19...

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Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick; Green, Anthony E (1943-)

29 November 1975

William Hart, recorded at home in Wiltonby Tony Green [?daughter and son-in-law, Ray Bennett and Mrs. Ray Bennett, also present]. WH sings 'Guisborough Fair' and 'I'd Never Tell a Lie This Day', lea...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

19 March 1976

Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', [first line: 'When I was a jolly young ploughboy'], 'Farmer's Boy' and [first line: 'Come with me to t...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

23 November 1971

Loreto Todd, recorded at the University of Leeds; talks about the organisation of singing and storytelling in Ireland [informant born in Coalisland, ?studying in the School of English at Leeds at the ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

11 September 1974

James Knights, recorded at home in Little Glemham; talks about singing as a boy, winning first prize in a singing competition; song papers, murder songs, song papers and penny song books; learning tun...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

30 November 1976

[Collector announcement]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; sings 'Waters of Tyne', and discusses learning it and other Geordie songs; sings/hums fragment of 'Buy Broom Besoms'; sings 'Bobb...

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Sound Recording, Sufffolk

Dunn, Ginette

12 September 1974

Horace White, recorded at home in Spexhall; talks about the effect of World War One and the Army on his thinking/outlook; village water supply; infant/child mortality; suicide; Socialism and being a s...

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Sound Recordings, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall

Patten, Bob

1970-1971

Compilation of field recordings of traditional songs from the West Country(accompanied and unaccompanied, complete and fragments), a monologue and a children's calendar custom rhyme. The songs include...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

1971-1973

Ken White in conversation in his home in Sheffield , 24 October 1971. Talk of family and childhood, and four songs. [Tr. 1] Albert Broadhead and Bernard Broadhead recorded in one of their homes, in ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ashton, John

[1974/1975]

Harry Slack, recorded in his home in Leeds. Brief reference to singing style (adornment); sings and then discusses 'Uncle Dan McCann', learned from parents; sings 'Said Meself to Herself' and explains...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

2 April 1976

[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; talks about songwriting, singing and playing at dances in the local school hall; playing the banjo and ukulele; sings and p...

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