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N: Sports, Games and Pastimes
1961-1976
This series contains items relating to amusements in the form of games, sports and pastimes. The subject matter includes sports and athletic games, traditional annual games, animal sports, and card an...
Games and Pastimes
1959-1980
This subseries contains items relating to children's games and pastimes, and includes Catherine Wellsted's study of children's lore, language and games in Nottinghamshire; newspaper articles on playgr...
Student Folklore Dossiers
1971-1982
Student folklore dossiers, variously subtitled Scheme B - Folk Life 1: First Term Exercise, and Folk Life Exercise: First Term. Each compilation includes the student's biographical details, and items ...
An Investigation into the Play of Children Living in a Traditionally Working Class Area of Back-to-Back Housing Property, in Leeds, in May and June, 1962
Collins, J M Mrs; McKelvie, Donald
1962
A study of schoolchildren at play in Leeds, combining researches in education and folk life by two postgraduate students at the University of Leeds. Mrs. Collins was taking a Diploma in Curricular Stu...
Some Aspects of Oral, Social and Material Tradition in an Industrial Urban Area
McKelvie, Donald
1963
The nine chapters in this Ph.D. thesis describe an approach to collecting folklife material in the cities, towns and villages of West Yorkshire (including Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield), with cha...
An Account of the Home Life, Leisure-Time Activities and Community Traditions of the Northumbrian Coal Miner, Dealing Mainly with the Period 1900 to 1930
Fryer, Sheila
1964
A dissertation based on interviews with seven miners and ex-miners from Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne. The first of its three chapters contains a biographical note on, and the recollections o...
Some Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Yorkshire Life: A Re-Examination of George Walker, The Costume of Yorkshire, 1814
Langhorne, Richard
1971
M.A. thesis which takes the activities, tools and equipment illustrated in George Walker's 'The Costume of Yorkshire' as the introduction for a study of such objects as they are represented in the mus...
Holmewood. Portrait of a Village: A Survey of the Customs, Traditions and Beliefs in a Derbyshire Mining Village
Rodgers, L J
1967
A study of the folklore of Holmewood in Derbyshire. Its sections provide a brief description of the old village, with particular reference to places and objects which are part of the life and traditio...
Clogs. Their Social Aspects, with Particular Reference to Fighting and Dancing
Woolley, Hilary J
1976
A study comprising four chapters. The first presents the historical, functional and social context of wooden soled footwear, with sections on working clogs and dress clogs. Chapter Two considers the c...
The Folklore and Traditions of Schoolchildren in Hull and Beverley Between 1890 and 1910
Hawkins, Edith Mary
1969
M.Phil. study of children's folklore in Hull and Beverley, in two parts. Part One contains an introductory chapter offering definitions of folklore and traditions, the term school children, an outline...
Children's Rhymes, Songs and Singing Games in Birdsedge, West Yorkshire
Cooke, Jane A
1980
[M.A.] study of children's folklore in Birdsedge, based on fieldwork carried out in the playground of Birdsedge First School, between October 1979 and April 1980, and the recollections of parent and g...
The Dialect of Golcar
Jacobson, Joanne
1974
M.A. project on one dialect speaker from Golcar, West Yorkshire . Analysis is made of material contained within a 34-minute tape recorded interview with Mr. Gledhill, made by Stanley Ellis in 1963. ...