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manners and customs6
social life and customs6
community life5
culture5
communication4
literature and folklore4
english language - dialects3
folklore3
persons3
agriculture2

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Casbon, Herbert1
Chapman, George Fletcher1
Dunn, Ginette1
Haddock, Christopher1
Haddock, Elsie1
Tammivaara, Irmeli1

Archive Item

Sound Recordings, New Zealand

Dunn, Ginette

[1973]

Male informant [as for tapes LAVC/SRE/A659r - A662r], recorded in New Zealand; talks about a poem he has written for the collector, and translates a Maori leavetaking. [Tr. 1] Copy recording of a gr...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Christopher Haddock [ Albert Haddock's brother] and Elsie Haddock, recorded at Sutton Gault on the 22 July 1975; talk about wild mushrooms and mushroom picking; mushroom ketc...

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Archive Sub-series

Social Intercourse

1967-1972

This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to drinking and inns/public houses. This includes James Stevens Curl's article on gin palaces and their disappearance, extracted ...

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Archive File

Conventional Expressions

1964-1979

This file contains a photocopy of Irene Teoh Brosnahan's paper, 'The Haptics of the English Handshake', from 'IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching', volume XVII, numb...

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Bonfire Survey

1967-1968

This file contains items relating to a collaborative survey of bonfire customs conducted for the Folk Life Survey through the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) at Leeds, and the Depar...

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Sheep, Geese, Bees and Dogs

1957-1973

This file contains items relating largely to the care and management of sheep, but also items on geese, bees and dogs. This includes a typed copy of a letter on sheepshearing in Cumberland, from 'Will...

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