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Total number of records: 104

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communities104
community life104
culture104
manners and customs48
folk music32
vehicles32
buildings30
persons30
entertainment events29
nature29

Top 10: People and organisations

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Caunce, Stephen12
Hartley, Dorothy8
Maduakor, Robert Obiatuegwu6
Ashton, John5
Hucklebridge, John5
Wright, John T5
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)4
Sofer, Zvi D (1980)4
Barstow, John3
Bergal, Nancy Ann3

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"Group of Gypsies (Romania)"

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

December 1974

Group of Romany men quarreling on the platform of the railway station in Cluj (Romania). Mounted on Photo File card. With ms. note which describes the quarreling and subsequent events, including a des...

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Zvi Sofer and Mr. Gold

[1965-1966]

Mr. Gold (seated) and Dr. Zvi Sofer of the University of Göttingen, during a visit by Dr. Sofer to Donisthorpe Hall, a Jewish old people's home in Leeds (West Yorkshire).

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Song Structure and Social Structure

Lomax, Alan (1915-2002)

[1962]

This file contains two photocopies of Alan Lomax's paper on the importance of the study of folk music in its context, i.e. as a form of human behaviour, from 'Ethnology', volume I, number 4 (October 1...

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Classes of the Community

1972

This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains Christopher Sykes' article, 'The Last of the Wold Rangers', extracted from 'Country Life' (31 August 1972), pp. 504-505. The article focusses on...

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A Critique of the Methodology of Robert Redfield

Paine, Robert

1968

Four photocopies of Robert Paine's article, 'A Critique of the Methodology of Robert Redfield: Folk Culture and Other Concepts', from an offprint from 'Ethnos' (1968), pp. 161-172. This also includes ...

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Folk-Song in a Musical Tradition. (A Study of Irish Traditional Singing in Leeds)

Ashton, John

1975

M.A. study which examines folk song as part of a living Irish cultural tradition in Leeds, based on fieldwork and research carried out between November 1974 and April 1975. The discussion is based on ...

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"Gypsy Children"

[1970s]

Copy of a photographic postcard, postmarked 1909 , of a group of Gypsy Traveller children in the New Forest (Hampshire), performing a dance. Mounted on Photo File card. With ms. note.

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"Gypsy Caravans"

Hartley, Dorothy

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken ca. 1920 of a group of Gypsy Travellers standing with horse-drawn caravans, at an unknown (English) location. Mounted on Photo File card.

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Members of Belgrave Street Synagogue
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Members of Belgrave Street Synagogue

[1965-1966]

Dr. Zvi Sofer (University of Göttingen) with members (male and female) of the Great Synagogue, Belgrave Street, Leeds (West Yorkshire). Dr. Sofer is third from the left.

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Members of Belgrave Street Synagogue
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Members of Belgrave Street Synagogue

[1965-1966]

Dr. Zvi Sofer (University of Gottingen) with members (male and female) of the Great Synagogue, Belgrave Street, Leeds. Dr. Sofer is on the far right.

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"Urban Negro Speech: Sociolinguistic Factors Affecting English Teachers"

Stewart, William A

[1965]

Typed paper intended for the 'Proceedings of the Conference on Urban Social Dialects and Language Learning' (National Council for Teachers of English, 1965). The paper discusses the difficulties of te...

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"Gypsy Caravans"

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken by Dorothy Hartley, ca. 1920 of Gypsy Travellers standing with horse-drawn caravans, at an unknown (English) location.

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