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Total number of records: 299

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives212
Books and printed items87

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture206
Leeds Russian Archive19
Brotherton Collection16
Herbert Read Collection6
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society4
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive3
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection2
Cookery Collection1
Liddle Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
museums299
culture206
occupations140
implements, utensils etc98
buildings90
play56
architecture50
handicraft50
community life49
material culture48

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Saint Petersburg (Russia)4
Great Britain3
London, United Kingdom3
Moscow (Russia)3
Russia (Federation)3
Cambirdge, United Kingdom1
Egypt1
England1
India1
Israel1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Langhorne, Richard43
Brunk, Wille23
Hawley, Elizabeth K16
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)16
Mcnay, Ian10
Sheppard, Thomas (1876-1945)7
Bather, Francis Arthur (1863-1934)5
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)5
Hull City Museums & Art Galleries5
Chapman, John3

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180013
From 1900271
From 20006

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189910
Up to 1999271
Up to latest9

Archive Sub-series

Fieldwork and Research

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1893-1974

The diffuse nature of the subject content of this subseries highlights Harold Orton's broad-ranging interest in language, language research and folk life, including in particular, phonetics ( Yorkshir...

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Educational System

[1960s-1970s]

This subseries contains items relating to education, predominantly in terms of ethnographic research and the dissemination of historical and ethnographic information. This includes details of oral his...

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Folk Museums of the British Isles

Orton, W R

1968

This survey of twenty-five British folk museums comprises an introductory section which presents a definition, history and thoughts on the function of the folk museum, followed by individual descripti...

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Quarry Bank Mill: The Development of a Folk Museum

Price, Sarah M

1978

A dissertation describing the development of Quarry Bank Mill as a museum, tracing the history of the village of Styal where it is situated, the mill and, briefly, the Lancashire cotton industry. In d...

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Some Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Yorkshire Life: A Re-Examination of George Walker, The Costume of Yorkshire, 1814

Langhorne, Richard

1971

M.A. thesis which takes the activities, tools and equipment illustrated in George Walker's 'The Costume of Yorkshire' as the introduction for a study of such objects as they are represented in the mus...

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Gazette

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1961-1969

This file contains correspondence relating to Stewart Sanderson's professional duties, and includes original and copy papers. It includes correspondence concerning the University Council (July and Oct...

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Other Institutions

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1964-1983

This file contains correspondence between Stewart Sanderson and colleagues at academic and related institutions. It includes a typed questionnaire on folklife research in Europe from the Commission In...

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Anglo-Swedish Scheme

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1968-1969

This file consists of original and copy correspondence, and related papers, concerning a postgraduate course in Swedish folk museums devised by Stewart Sanderson and Ingemar Liman. It includes ms. and...

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University Archive

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1960-1980

This file contains original and copy correspondence, and related papers, concerning Stewart Sanderson's activities as an academic folklorist. Its contents seem to have been selected by Sanderson for d...

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Papers on the Museums Association and its Training Courses

Museums Association

1968-1980

Museums Association Information Sheets no. 7, 'Copyright Law Concerning Works of Art, Photographs and the Written and Spoken Word' (2nd ed., 1974), and no. 20, 'Reproduction Fees, Photography, etc.: G...

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Papers on Folk Collections, Etc.

[1961-1982]

This file contains various leaflets, printed volumes and other items relating to places of historical/folk interest, and folk-related collections. This includes a general leaflet for Bunratty Folk Par...

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Papers on Folk Collections, Etc.

1836-1985

The bulk of items in this file are dated 1959-1985. The file contains leaflets, printed volumes and other items mostly concerning folk-related museums and collections. It includes Frank Atkinson's pri...

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