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Total number of records: 81

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture81
University Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
archive administration81
community life80
education79
culture65
english language - dialects33
communication22
occupations15
agriculture11
folklore11
manners and customs11

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)11
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)8
University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies7
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)6
Brunk, Wille3
Barry, Michael V (1935-)2
Green, Anthony E (1943-)2
[Institute For Folk Life Studies, Lund]1
Agar, Arthur1
Barrett, Frank1

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From 18003
From 190078

Archive File

Education - Miscellaneous

1970-1975

This file contains a photocopy of a typed paper listing details of oral history projects in Great Britain and Ireland, compiled by David Lance of the Imperial War Museum (December 1975), 17 pp.; and a...

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Archive Sub-series

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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Archive File

Old English Crafts Films

Hanna, Sam (1903-1996)

[ca. 1972]

This file contains items relating to the series of educational (16mm colour) films made by Sam Hanna on traditional English crafts. This includes a printed pamphlet on the series, including a list of ...

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Sound Recordings, Powys

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

[Collector announcement (Ellis)]; Mr. ?Richards, recorded outside in Llanafan-fawr [undated]; talks about the electricity supply to the area; fire grates in local houses; peat burning; local dwellings...

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Record, Film and Microfilm Catalogues

[1965-1979]

This file contains guides and catalogues for audio-visual items that might be used during the course of study or research into folklife and folk music. It includes British Universities Film Council le...

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Ford Foundation Proposals

Center for Applied Linguistics

1965

This file contains photocopies of two typed papers originally printed in 'A Proposal to the Ford Foundation for Continued Support of the Center for Applied Linguistics' , vol. 1, Washington, D.C., 9 M...

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A Phonological Study of Two Newcastle Idiolects

Skelton, Michael G

1976

M.A. research exercise analysing the speech habits of two informants from Newcastle upon Tyne, based on fieldwork carried out in December 1975 in Gosforth High School ( Gosforth), and on an audio reco...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

29 November 1976

[Collector announcement]; Jacky Gallon, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about farm work; relations in the village; the Black Bull pub; previous Friday's quoits club social - singing and songs, rep...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

23 November 1971

Mary Judge, recorded in Leeds; talks about her upbringing in the Lancashire village of Overton (1900-1914); community life; scrambling for hot pennies at weddings; wedding parties and the food eaten; ...

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Archive File

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 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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Archive Sub-series

Questionnaire Response Books: Miscellaneous Items

[ca. 1950]

This subseries consists of various forms of printed, blank (i.e. not completed in ms.) pages intended for recording the responses of informants to elements of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire.

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