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Weather Lore as Observed in Disley and Surrounding Districts
Bradbury, Valerie
1965
A study of weatherlore known to the inhabitants of Disley in Cheshire, based on fieldwork interviews, responses to a circular letter and a letter to the local press. The material collected, totalling ...
Sound Recordings, Cheshire
Pattison, Susan
[1975]
Adrian Peters, recorded at home in Marston, talks about his 7-8 year involvement with the Antrobus Soul-Cakers - link with wife's family and parts played [ David Goulburn contributes occasionally]; ag...
The Calvert Folklore Manuscript, by George and Alfred Calvert
Annis, Paul
1978
The focus of this study is a manuscript containing items of Yorkshire folklore collected by George Calvert of Kirkby Moorside (North Yorkshire) in the early nineteenth century. Two-fifths of the manus...
Twentieth Century Attitudes to Death
Rowley, Karen Jayne
1981
A study comprising four chapters. The first presents a brief outline of the development of attitudes to death throughout the ages leading up to the twentieth century. The second chapter concerns early...
Farming Past and Present: A Study Based in the Village of Terrington St. John and the Surrounding Areas of the Fens of North West Norfolk
Pearson, Margaret Frances
1977
A study of the farming community of Terrington St. John in Norfolk, based largely on fieldwork interviews with local people. The study comprises nine chapters. The first presents a profile of the vill...
Booklists
1951-1980
These files contain bibliographies, catalogues and related items, collected by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivists and members of staff. The items were originally held in one...
Katharine Mary Briggs, correspondence and papers
Briggs, Katharine M (1898-1980)
c.1900-1980
Katherine Mary Briggs was bom in London in 1898, the eldest of three surviving daughters of Ernest and Mary Briggs. The Briggs family had its origins in Yorkshire and had built up its fortune from the...
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture, (Survey of English Dialects, and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies)
University of Leeds
1836-2003
The Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture comprises the combined multiple media holdings of the archives of the Survey of English Dialects (ca. 1946-1978) directed by Harold Orton, and the University of...