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Total number of records: 14

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Archives11
Books and printed items3

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture11
Brotherton Collection3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2

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folklore14
culture11
community life10
manners and customs9
communication6
literature and folklore6
social life and customs5
english language - dialects4
nature4
animals3

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Northern Ireland2
Wales1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Committee On Ulster Folklife and Traditions2
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum2
Ulster Folk Museum2
Ulster Folklife Society2
'Dusty'1
Baldwin, John R1
Cook, E. T.1
Cook, Mrs. E. T.1
Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy1
Dawes, George1

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From 18001
From 190011

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Welsh folklore and folk-custom

Jones, T Gwynn (1871-1949)

1930

"List of works quoted or consulted": pages xv-xx.

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Ulster folklife (v.29 (1979))

Committee on Ulster Folklife and Traditions; Ulster Folklife Society; Ulster Folk and Transport Museum; Ulster Folk Museum

Vols. for 1955-60 published by the Committee on Ulster Folklife and Traditions; 1961-64 by the Ulster Folklife Society; 1965- by the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum (called 1958- Ulster Folk Museum) ...

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Ulster folklife

Committee on Ulster Folklife and Traditions; Ulster Folklife Society; Ulster Folk and Transport Museum; Ulster Folk Museum

v.25 (1979) Vols. for 1955-60 published by the Committee on Ulster Folklife and Traditions; 1961-64 by the Ulster Folklife Society; 1965- by the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum (called 1958- Ulste...

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Urban Folklore

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1964-1980

This file contains items on contemporary legends and folklore, and includes an ms. letter from A. Tozer (to Stewart Sanderson?) on modern folktales (16 December 1964), prompted by an article in 'The G...

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Sound Recording, New Zealand

Dunn, Ginette

[1973]

Male Maori informant, recorded on 20th May 1973 in Gisborne, New Zealand; introduces himself and the collector, and describes the circumstances of their meeting; talks about his own research into Maor...

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Sound Recording, Ayrshire

Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy

December 1973

James McCrindle, recorded at home in Ayr, talks about his career as a fisherman; the type of fish caught; fishing grounds; starting in 1923; describes a fishing boat, sailing as a schoolboy, the crew,...

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Archive File

Papers on Folk Collections, Etc.

1836-1985

The bulk of items in this file are dated 1959-1985. The file contains leaflets, printed volumes and other items mostly concerning folk-related museums and collections. It includes Frank Atkinson's pri...

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Archive File

The Courtney Manuscript and Related Papers

1973-1974

This file contains papers relating to the republication of Margaret Courtney's 'Cornish Feasts and Folklore' (originally published Penzance: Beare, 1890). Tony Green, lecturer at the Institute of Dial...

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Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1969

George Dawes [Dusty Dawes], recorded at home in Meysey Hampton; discusses the chorus to the songs 'Treat My Daughter Kindly' and 'Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups Do Grow'; talks about [?step/?...

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Archive File

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...

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Glossaries, Etc.

Hudleston, Nigel A

[1950s]

These files contain four undated typed papers, annotated in ms., containing dialect glossaries (mostly Yorkshire based) and data on Yorkshire folklife, and diagrams illustrating wagons and cottages. ...

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Folktales: Miscellaneous 2

[1970-1973]

This file contains items relating to folklore and folktale, including folktales from Sub-Saharan Africa. This includes a photocopy of an ms. paper by Lindi Shembi Williams of the University of Botswan...

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