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community life8
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play8
culture7
education6
occupations6
english language - dialects5
folk music5
health4
manners and customs4

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Bbc1
Bellfield, Billy1
Bird, Elizabeth1
Brook, Ann1
Dunn, Ginette1
Hartley, David1
Houck, Charles L1
Massarella, Mr1
Sullivan, Keith Frederick1
Webb, Percy1

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

29 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; David Hartley, recorded at home in Castleton[wife also present]; gives biographical details; talks about his wife; father's tenant farm; exemption from service during World W...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

19 July 1974

Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common; talks about Army life (pay, food) whilst in India; experiences of World War One (where stationed, being shelled/gassed, trenches, leave, Armistice, inj...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire

Massarella, Mr

[1960s]

Unidentified female informant, recorded in Charlesworth [by male collector, from Canterbury]; talks about cotton mills and rope works in the area; changes in the village, including new housing and tra...

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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...

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Historical Events

1969-1975

This file contains Theo Brown's pamphlet, 'Trojans in the West Country' (St. Peter Port: Toucan Press, 1970), 16 pp.; L. V. Grinsell's pamphlet on the folklore of Stanton Drew (St. Peter Port: Toucan ...

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Sound Recording, Derbyshire

BBC

[1970-1979]

Local BBC Radio broadcast, entitled 'Owd Loscoe' [produced by ?Radio Nottingham, or ?Radio Derby]; [Announcement]; Billy Bellfield, recorded in Holbrook; talks about life at the end of the nineteenth ...

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Jazz Bands of the North East of England

Bird, Elizabeth

1974

M.A. dissertation on the history and contemporary manifestation of marching bands in Northumberland, Durham and North Yorkshire. These bands comprise children aged 8-18, predominantly female, playing ...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Houck, Charles L

[Mid 1960s-1970s]

Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of...

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