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Some Aspects of Folk Life in Whitehaven
Graham, Jacqueline P
1980
A study of folk life in Whitehaven, based on information gathered from the collector's grandparents, visitors to their house and other family members, and covering roughly the seventy year period 1910...
Traditional Song: General
1963-1979
This file contains items relating to aspects of traditional music, and includes a copy of 'The Health of Man', a collection of traditional songs from Bedfordshire, Yorkshire, Suffolk and Lancashire, c...
History and Blood Groups in the British Isles
Potts, William Taylor Windle (1928-)
1973
Copy of a paper delivered at the Medieval Settlement Seminar at the School of History, University of Leeds, 1 June 1973. This examines the distribution of blood groups and gene frequencies in differen...
"Eli Frankham: A Study of a Modern British Gypsy"
Williamson, Anne
1977
A study of Gypsy Traveller folklore, based on interviews with Eli Frankham, from the Gypsy Traveller community, living in Norfolk. Eight chapters present a brief history of the Gypsy Travellers, a bio...
Birth, Marriage, Death and Initiation Customs and Beliefs in the Central Sudan
Hamid, Sayed
1966
M.A. study of customs connected with the life cycle in central Sudan. The aim has been to put these in their proper social setting and to give them possible interpretations, whilst also attempting to ...
Rochdale Market: Its History and Customs
Randle, Olivia Susan
1971
A study of Rochdale Market, comprising chapters giving historical background information, descriptions of the market and its administration in 1971, childhood in Rochdale at the turn of the twentieth ...
Ethnographical Survey of the United Kingdom
British Association for the Advancement of Science
[1960s-1970s]
This file contains photocopies of items from the Reports of the 65th, 66th and 67th meetings of the British Association ( 1895-1897). The photocopies contain the 3rd, 4th and 5th reports of the Associ...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
1974
Priscilla Savage, recorded at home in Blaxhall on the 31 October 1974; talks about remembering songs and giving song texts to other people; sings 'There Were Two Jolly Sportsmen' [incomplete - recites...