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culture8
traditional medicine8
well-being8
folk music6
manners and customs6
folklore5
social life and customs5
english language - dialects4
holidays4
persons4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette1
Green, Charles1
Hinchcliffe, Frank1
Ibbotson, Dorothy1
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)1
Mckelvie, Donald1
Morris, Patricia M1
Robson, Joanne1
Russell, Ian1
Skinner, Margaret1

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1975

Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common on the 27 June 1975; sings 'The Boy Truly Regrets'; [gap]; 'I Wonder Who's Kissing You Now (Because I Love You)'; [ 'Fiddler's Green']; 'Flanagan's Band...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire and Derbyshire

Russell, Ian

12 July 1973 - Sep 1976

Charles Green in conversation at home in Dungworth, near Sheffield, July 1973. Talks of his favourite songs, and discusses his repertoire; traditional remedies; working life, wages and lifestyle; meth...

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Gardening Questionnaire Correspondence

Whitfield, Jean

1962-1963

Letters sent to Jean Whitfield from newspapers, journals and magazine editors regarding her research, and from individuals responding to her requests for help posted through these channels. This relat...

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Student Folklore Dossiers

1971-1982

Student folklore dossiers, variously subtitled Scheme B - Folk Life 1: First Term Exercise, and Folk Life Exercise: First Term. Each compilation includes the student's biographical details, and items ...

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The Folklore of the Northumbrian Fishing Communities

Robson, Joanne

1967

A study of crab, lobster and salmon fishermen, and the communities in which they live, covering the length of the Northumberlandcoast. In collecting folklore of the area and the industry, the collecto...

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Folklore of Worsley: A Miscellaneous Collection of Tradition and Belief From the Area of Worsley, Salford Metropolitan District

Skinner, Margaret

1975

A study of the folklore of Worsley people, based on oral and printed sources. Interviews were conducted with older residents, and children at a Primary School in Walkden. The study contains a sectio...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

October 1981

Dorothy Ibbotson, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; sings 'The Warrior's Little Boy' (learned from her grandmother), and talks about her attempts to trace the song's origins; gives biog...

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Some Aspects of Oral, Social and Material Tradition in an Industrial Urban Area

McKelvie, Donald

1963

The nine chapters in this Ph.D. thesis describe an approach to collecting folklife material in the cities, towns and villages of West Yorkshire (including Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield), with cha...

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