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Reports on Mumming from the Industrial West Riding and Nottinghamshire
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
1966
This file contains a typed paper by Tony Green giving information on mumming plays collected by himself and Mary Greenwald in West Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. This includes information collected fr...
In my father's court : a memoir
Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1904-1991); Goldstein, Channa Kleinerman; Gottlieb, Elaine; Singer, Joseph (1923-2013)
1980
This translation originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966; London : Secker and Warburg, 1967. - Translation of: 'Mayn tatn's bes-din shtub'. New York : s.n., 1956.
Collected Papers
Brunk, Wille
1965-1967
This file contains papers received and collected by Wille Brunk during his assistant lectureship at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). This includes a copy of Åsa Werner-Ljungstr...
The Observance of Mothering Sunday
Gregson, Peter
1966
A thesis on the tradition and observance of the mothering custom, based on fieldwork carried out in North Nottinghamshire villages from February to October 1965, and early in 1966. Information was als...
Sound Recordings, Salop, Cheshire and Staffordshire
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1966
Mr. R. Morris, recorded in Llanymynech (Salop) on the 26 September 1966; talks about types of plough; waggoners; ploughing (matches); corn stacks; haymaking - use of horse mower, turning, making cocks...
Sheep Farming in Eskdale, Cumberland
Harrison, Keith
1966
A thesis which concentrates on aspects of sheep farming in Eskdale, with particular reference to one farming family in the area. Fieldwork was carried out between 1965 and 1966.
The Folk Lore of Wild Flowers in the Parish of Leckhampton, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Collected in the Summer of 1970
Hammond, Penelope Ruth
1970
A presentation of folklore associated with wild flowers, based on information gathered from people living in Leckhampton in Gloucestershire. Interviews were conducted with schoolchildren, middle-aged ...
Leeds Teaching Notes
Brunk, Wille
[1966-1968]
This file contains papers created by Brunk for use in tutorials and lectures given to undergraduate students at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The papers contained within this...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
27 November 1976
[Collector announcement]; Phil Hales, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about the village of Ugthorpe, and acceptance of him as an outsider; Ugthorpe youth club, and attitude towards young people in...
Dialect and Linguistic Pamphlets
1940-1974
This file contains 19 dialect- and linguistics-related pamphlets, offprints and reprints, deposited in the Dialect File. Many include inscriptions from the author to Harold Orton. Includes: - Der La...
Mumming: General
1962-1980
This file contains items generally related to the practice of mumming, and mumming plays. This includes a photocopy of Rosemary Meynell's paper, 'Come, Brave Bow Slash and his Men', from 'Derbyshire C...
Sound Recordings, Yorkshire
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
[1975]
Compilation of field recordings (copy extracts) made by Tony Green and others (including students of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies), and possibly used by him in a session, Interviewin...