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clothing and dress76
culture76
english language - dialects76
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manners and customs45
holidays38
rites and ceremonies35
folk drama33
occupations31
folk music25

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Upton, Clive S12
Harrop, Peter K6
Baldwin, John R4
Harris, Susan4
Pattison, Susan4
Tylor, Mr4
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Shaw, David H3
Taylor, Mr3
Wright, Peter3
Yorkshire Response List: Boot(s)
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Yorkshire Response List: Boot(s)

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Typed list of responses collected in Yorkshire localities to SED question VI.14.23, Boot(s). The information is largely based on recordings collected by Peter Wright. The list is arranged in tabular f...

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West Midlands Responses: Book V, Part 11

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book V, Part 11: Clothing. Includes questions V.11.1 Chemise - V.11.3 Pilch.

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West Midlands Responses: Book VI, Part 14

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VI, Part 14: Clothing. Includes questions VI.14.1 Bonnet - VI.14.13 Trousers/Breeches.

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West Midlands Responses: Book VI, Part 14

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VI, Part 14: Clothing. Includes questions VI.14.14 She wears the breeches - VI.14.26 Tag.

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Britannia Coconut Dancer
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Britannia Coconut Dancer

Buckland, Theresa Jill

[1970s]

Britannia Coconut Dancers, in costume, performing in front of a crowd in the street at Bacup (Lancashire). The dancers wear clogs.

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Brighouse Pace Eggers
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Brighouse Pace Eggers

Tylor, Mr

[1970s]

Copy of an original photograph taken around the 1940s, of pace eggers performing in a street in Brighouse (West Yorkshire), watched by a large crowd of people. The performers are members of the Brigho...

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SED Phonological Map: Pockets
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SED Phonological Map: Pockets

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed phonological map, completed in ms., for SED question IV.6.11, Pockets, mapping responses with an unstressed e. The map was compiled by Harold Orton and J. M., and is dated March 1...

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Yorkshire Response List: Comb
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Yorkshire Response List: Comb

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Typed list of responses collected in Yorkshire localities to SED question VI.2.4, Comb. The information is largely based on recordings collected by Peter Wright. The list is arranged in tabular form w...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Two male informants (brothers), recorded outside in the Ecclesfield area of Sheffield; talk about winters, including that of 1946/1947; pig keeping and poultry farming; milk delivering; their brother;...

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Transvestite Disguise in the English Folk Song Tradition

Barnes, Glynis E C

1972

M.A. study of transvestite disguise (male or female, actively performed or suggested) occurring in folk songs collected in England, North America and Australia, and following a thematic analysis by th...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Newman, Sally; Harrop, Peter K

May 1979

Gus Smith, recorded at his farm in Midgley, talks about the Midgley Pace Egg Play, and the involvement of Sixth Formers from Calder High School; casting and the play's association with the school, pla...

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Calderdale Pace Eggers
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Calderdale Pace Eggers

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of a pace egg play being performed at the Calder Valley Folk Festival, in an unidentified town in Calderdale (West Yorkshire), in 1956. The players are all children (boys). The Do...

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