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Total number of records: 5

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
associations, institutions, etc5
community life5
culture4
english language - dialects3
education2
entertainment events2
folk dancing2
folk drama2
folk music2
occupations2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Baldwin, John R1
Green, R J1
Knowles, Renfred1
Miller, T. J.1
Palmer, F. E.1
Sullivan, Keith Frederick1
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)1
Wakelin, Martyn F1
Wilkinson, Jim1
Wilkinson, Mrs1

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

29 November 1976

[Collector announcement, states date as 30 November]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; talks about Yorkshire monologues; thoughts on poetry and painting and sad songs; sings 'Greenland Wha...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1968-1969

Session recorded at Swindon Folksingers' Club in 1968 [?possibly a regional English Folk Dance and Song Society- organised Christmas event]; accordion tune; unidentified male sings [? 'Can You Dance t...

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Sound Recording, Cornwall

Wakelin, Martyn F; Tilling, Philip M (1938-)

July 1963

Renfred Knowles, recorded in St Day ; describes a working day in a [?tin] mine, including charging holes and blasting; being a miner for thirty years; working with boring machines; occupational diseas...

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St. George and the Dragon: A Study in Folk Art

Green, R J

1964

M.A. study [submitted as part of an English Literature degree] comprising ten chapters and five appendices. These discuss definitions of the folk play (with reference made to related calendar customs)...

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Conferences and Folk Events

1974-1981

This file contains ephemera used to promote and provide information on conferences and other events related to folklore and folklife. This includes a leaflet for the 2nd Yorkshire Folk and Craft Fayre...

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