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Total number of records: 62

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture62
folk dancing62
community life54
folk music42
english language - dialects35
manners and customs34
play30
occupations28
entertainment events23
food23

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette15
Sullivan, Keith Frederick6
Hayes, Raymond (1909-2000)4
Ashton, John3
Baldwin, John R3
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)3
Pickering, Michael J3
Slack, Harry3
Webb, Percy3
Cooke, Jane A2

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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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Dance Poster
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Dance Poster

[1970s]

Poster advertising an Old Time Dance at the Public Hall in Muker ( Swaledale), featuring the Dalesman Accordion Band. The poster is attached to a wooden door.

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Dance Poster
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Dance Poster

[1970s]

Poster advertising an Old Time Dance at the Public Hall in Muker ( Swaledale), featuring the Dalesman Accordion Band. The poster is attached to a wooden door.

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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.

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Traditional Fiddle Playing in West Clare: Junior Crehan and Michael Downes

Taylor, Barry Roy

1977

A study of the work of the Irish fiddle players, Junior Crehan and Michael Downes. The first of its nine sections presents a brief historical survey of Irish dance and its music; section two provides ...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

5 October 1972

Stanley Marsden singing and talking in his home, Allen Syke Farm, in Lodge Moor, Sheffield. Talks about learning songs (from his father/a song book); pub singing; singing whilst milking cows; repertoi...

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Ukwu Festival Dancer
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Ukwu Festival Dancer

Maduakor, Robert Obiatuegwu

1978

Card-mounted copy of a photograph taken ca. 1976 of a female dancer at the Ukwu Festival, Nigerian East Central State, Idemmli Division. The dancer wears bells on her ankles, and heavy anklets which r...

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Portuguese Folk Dancers
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Portuguese Folk Dancers

April 1965

Portuguese folk dancers in traditional dress, performing in the open air on a raised stage at Santo Tirso (Norte, Portugal).

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Portuguese Folk Dancers
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Portuguese Folk Dancers

April 1965

Portuguese folk dancers in traditional dress, performing in the open air on a raised stage at Santo Tirso (Norte, Portugal).

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Portuguese Folk Dancers
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Portuguese Folk Dancers

April 1965

Portuguese folk dancers in traditional dress, performing in the open air on a raised stage at Santo Tirso (Norte, Portugal).

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St. George and the Dragon: A Study in Folk Art

Green, R J

1964

M.A. study [submitted as part of an English Literature degree] comprising ten chapters and five appendices. These discuss definitions of the folk play (with reference made to related calendar customs)...

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Sound Recording, Ireland

Taylor, Barry Roy

8 July 1976

Junior Crehan, recorded in Mullagh (County Clare), plays a number of fiddle tunes, and in between talks about from whom he learned some of them (slow airs, dance music); also talks about a pipe player...

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