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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Bergal, Nancy Ann
21 March 1980
John Curtin, recorded in his home in the Armley area of Leeds. Talks about accordion and guitar playing, early interest in folk music; performance, expression; function of folk songs - text, moods, se...
Horn-blowing Customs
Walton, James
1938-1939
This file contains items written and collected by James Walton on horn-blowing customs, mostly relating to Yorkshire. This includes an article by Walton on horn-blowing published in the 'Newcastle Wee...
Packie Byrne: The Singer and his Audience
Nalder, Peter Francis
1968
A thesis presented as part of the Postgraduate Diploma in Folk Life Studies. Part One comprises the tape recordings made by the collector of Packie Byrne singing, playing the whistle and talking in Sh...
Lists from the Archive of Folk Song
Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)
1971-1974
This file contains lists produced by and for, and information about, the Archive of Folk Song at the Music Division of the Library of Congress. The file includes two versions of the paper, 'The Archiv...
Miscellaneous Correspondence
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1961-1976
Correspondence between Stewart Sanderson and various correspondents relating to dialect and folklife, covering the period January 1961-February 1963, November 1971, and June-August 1975. This includes...
Historical Events
1969-1975
This file contains Theo Brown's pamphlet, 'Trojans in the West Country' (St. Peter Port: Toucan Press, 1970), 16 pp.; L. V. Grinsell's pamphlet on the folklore of Stanton Drew (St. Peter Port: Toucan ...
The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
Buckland, Theresa Jill
1976
A study of the Horn Dance of Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire, performed traditionally once a year in September. The custom was witnessed by the collector in 1974 and 1975, and further fieldwork undert...
Sound Recordings, [Location Unknown]
Bell, Brigid M
28 December 1978
[Collector announcement: interviews with collector's parents and paternal grandmother]; Mary Bell talks about Christmas as a child in Ireland - food, no alcohol; Christmas as mother of collector's fat...
Parish and Church
[1965-1975]
This subseries, comprising a single file only, includes Werner Kissling's ms. notes on the Foresters' Walk in Coverdale (connected with the Ancient Order of Foresters) and its byelaws; Margaret Ottley...
Sound Recording, Monmouthshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)
[1960s]
Mr. Padfield, recorded in Crosskeys [undated]; talks about the local landscape and afforestation; boom time for coal mines during World War One; economic slumps and unemployment, dole and soup kitchen...
Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire
Shaw, David H
1960
Joe Brimm and his wife, Mrs. Joe Brimm, recorded in Dunton; talk about a local road to Dunton Lodge; thatching a haystack and a wheatcock, the clothing (knee pads) worn and implements used; using a te...
Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire
Shaw, David H
1959-1960
Alf Odell, recorded in Gravenhurst in November 1959; describes the process of thatching a haystack/rick; his working clothes and the tools used [ Bert Kefford and Doris Kefford join in]; Mr. Kefford a...