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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...
Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 3
1960-1979
This file contains a photocopy of Vivienne Furze's paper on the Devonshire dialect, from an unidentified publication, pp. 20-21; an ms. orthographic and phonetic transcription of Purbeck marblers' dia...
Sound Recording, Devon
Wright, John T
June 1958
Frank Thorne and William Edwards, in conversation in Gittisham; Mr. Thorne talks about farm work, milking, horsemen, father a tenant farmer; [gap, 1 minute]; weeding; haymaking - Mr. Edwards describes...
"The T. W. Thompson Collection of Gypsy Folk Tales: An Edition with Commentary and Analytical Indexes"
Clinch, Angela Jane
1982
Ph.D. thesis consisting of Thomas William Thompson's folktales collected from English Gypsy Traveller communities between 1908 and 1924. The tales have been classified and arranged according to the Aa...
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...
Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Wright, John T
24 November 1958
[Collector announcement]; William Rickards, recorded in Egloshayle; talks about farmwork on leaving school; wages; quarry work after World War One; working with his father in his flour mill, and then ...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Wright, John T
August 1957
Ernest Kent, recorded in Netheravon; talks about driving hay waggons in the summer; Michaelmas ploughing with oxen; his father; hoeing and rates of pay; threshing with a flail; rates of pay; gleaned c...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Wright, John T; Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1957
Ernest Packer, recorded in Ashton Keynes in July 1957; talks about his first job, driving a farm waggon at the age of ten; stable work harnessing horses; wages; thoughts on modern farming methods (plo...
Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Wright, John T
1958
[Collector announcement]; Frank Gist, recorded at home in Kilkhampton on the 25 October 1958; talks about farm work on leaving school; the family carriers business; goods transported and for whom; tra...
Folk Song: General
1959-1981
This file contains typed song texts for 'Ah'm an O'wd Age Penshoner' (provenance unknown); a photocopy of the text and tune for 'Charley of Armor', collected from Captain Shields by Geoff Wood, from a...