Search Special Collections
Results
Total number of records: 11
Top 10: Subject
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Baldwin, John R
1969
Harry Johnson, recorded at home in Standlake; sings 'I Stand on a Lonely Seashore', 'Meet Me by the Moonlight', 'Polly Perkins of Paddington Green' [fragment], 'The Two Beats the One', sung by informa...
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...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Baldwin, John R
1969
Mr. T. Newman, recorded at home in Clanfield. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A488r. Sings 'My Old 'at That I Got On', learned from a song sheet, and 'Needle Cases'[ fragment]; rec...
Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire
Baldwin, John R
1966-1969
Nancy Thornton, recorded at home in Fairford, sings 'I've Travelled Many a Mile'. [Tr. 3] Albert Agg, recorded at home in Siddington, sings 'Buttercup Joe', 'The Old Sow', 'A Bunch of Green Holly an...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Baldwin, John R
1966
Harry Lay, recorded at home in Bampton; talks about playing the character Father Christmas in a mummers' play performed in Bampton each year; recites lines from the play, and goes on to talk about his...
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/?...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Houck, Charles L
[Mid 1960s-1970s]
Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of...
Sound Recording, Gloucestershire
Harrop, Peter K
4 December 1978
Jack Tomes, recorded at the Cotswold House Hotel in Chipping Campden, talks about the Chipping Campden Mummers; their costume; performing the play for the film director, Richard Todd, in Broad Campden...
Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian
March-May 1971
Mina Dyson playing the piano and in conversation in her home in the Stannington area of Sheffield. Talks about the tunes played, in church and at carol services; village orchestras; Harvest Supper and...
Pace Egg Plays
1962-1976
This file contains items relating to pace egg plays, including transcriptions of play texts, and plays featuring St. George. This includes a copy of 'The Peace Egg, or St. George: An Easter Play' (Roc...
Sound Recordings, Great Britain and Ireland
Harrop, Peter K
[1970s]
Soundtrack of a BBC One television programme, 'Here We Come A-Wassailing', broadcast on the 22 December 1977 at 22:20 [this copy recorded direct from the television]. Incomplete copy of a programme w...