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Total number of records: 61

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture61
University Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
communication61
community life61
education55
culture50
english language - dialects26
archive administration22
literature and folklore20
folklore15
manners and customs14
persons12

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)12
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)6
Brunk, Wille3
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Mason, Tom2
Baker, Alice1
Baker, Charles Albert1
Bergal, Nancy Ann1
Bryon, Fiona1
Collins, J M Mrs1

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From 18002
From 190059

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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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John Askham of Wellingborough: The Work of a Local Working-Class Author in the Nineteenth Century

Davies, Patrick J M

1983

A study of the writings of John Askham, shoemaker and author from Wellingborough in Northamptonshire. Askham's prose is discussed in relation to street literature of the beginning of the nineteenth ...

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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

10 Jun 1980 - 15 Dec 1980

Jim Roche [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A087] talks about his Trade Union involvement as a Shop Steward in the Leeds clothing industry: industrial and social problems of members; church involvement in...

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Games Without Special Equipment

1959-1973

This file contains items relating to games played by children which require no special equipment. This includes an ms. letter from Doris Hepworth to Tony Green on the game 'Old Roger is Dead', accompa...

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Professor Orton: Biography and Obituary Notices

1972-1975

This file comprises papers containing biographical information on, and obituaries of, Harold Orton. This includes printed biographical details of Orton's education and career, possibly from/for a biog...

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An Investigation into the Play of Children Living in a Traditionally Working Class Area of Back-to-Back Housing Property, in Leeds, in May and June, 1962

Collins, J M Mrs; McKelvie, Donald

1962

A study of schoolchildren at play in Leeds, combining researches in education and folk life by two postgraduate students at the University of Leeds. Mrs. Collins was taking a Diploma in Curricular Stu...

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Written Dialect Tradition in the West Riding of Yorkshire

Harris, Wendy

1973

An examination of song, recitation in verse and prose, and other items created for either public or private performance, appearing in dialect form and gathered from written or printed sources covering...

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The Linguistic Atlas of England: Reviews and Articles

1975-1980

This file contains newspaper cuttings, magazine extracts and photocopied articles relating to the Survey of English Dialects (SED) and the publication of 'The Linguistic Atlas of England' (LAE). The...

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The Courtney Manuscript and Related Papers

1973-1974

This file contains papers relating to the republication of Margaret Courtney's 'Cornish Feasts and Folklore' (originally published Penzance: Beare, 1890). Tony Green, lecturer at the Institute of Dial...

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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 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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