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Total number of records: 21

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture21
oral traditions21
community life19
education19
literature and folklore12
manners and customs11
folklore8
food8
persons8
english language - dialects7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Pearce, Ben2
Agar, Jack1
Attebery, Louie W (1927-)1
Billy1
Courtis, Jim1
Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)1
Fisher, Vivian1
Fursman, Mr1
Hales, Phil1
Holdsworth, Valerie M1

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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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A Folkloristic Approach to Traditional Educational Processes in Igbo

Oduah, Gabriel Ikechukwu

1981

M.A. dissertation on aspects of the folk life of the Igbo people living in south-eastern Nigeria. The study is divided into three sections, the first containing chapters on the Igbo people (their geog...

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A Study of Language and Folklore in Batley and Surrounding Areas

Holdsworth, Valerie M

1971

A Special Study submitted as part of an unidentified course at Eaton Hall College of Education, Retford, in 1971. The study comprises a collection of folklore items, gathered from eleven informants li...

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The Lore, Language and Games of Children

Wellsted, Catherine

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of Catherine Wellsted's typed study of children's playground and street activities, undertaken as part of a course at the Eaton Hall College of Education in Retford (Not...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire,

3 February 1981

Ken Sutcliffe, recorded in his home in the Cookridge area of Leeds; talks about papers and books concerning World War Two bombers; occupied territories (Holland); photographs; [collector announcement]...

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Sound Recording, Cumbria

Attebery, Louie W (1927-)

April 1972

[Collector announcement]; Vivian Fisher, recorded at home in Keswick on the 28 April 1972; talks about local gentry; dialect; John Banks and William Penn; childhood memories of Keswick; Queen Mary and...

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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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Oral History Research Papers

[1950s-1981]

Three copies of a leaflet on the oral history programme at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; and an article on George Freeston and his efforts to record and preserve the history of Blisworth, ...

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Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

10 Mar 1939

[Side 1] Florrie recites the story of the little mouse and the old tom cat in Rothbury dialect; Florrie, Billy and Charlie talk about fishing (first few seconds inaudible). [Side 2] Billy and Charlie ...

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The Lore and Language of the Children at the Herman Junior School, Gorleston, Great Yarmouth

Triggs, Tony D

1968

A study of the lore and language of fourth-year schoolchildren at Herman Junior School, Gorleston in Norfolk, based on answers given to a questionnaire compiled by the collector. The sections containe...

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An Experiment in Oral Transmission

Latham-Thorpe, Jane Elizabeth

1976

Postgraduate study of the changes that occur in the process of the oral transmission of a shaggy-dog story, a children's joke, a contemporary legend, a local legend from Whitby and a ghost story. The ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

[September 1981]

Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; talks about food shopping for a large family; gardening and vegetable growing; breakfast; dinners (week's menu); offal/meat products; le...

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