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nature5
manners and customs4
culture3
community life2
education2
english language - dialects2
folk music2
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superstition2
weather2

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Attebery, Louie W (1927-)1
Bell, Wendy Marion1
Dunn, Ginette1
Fisher, Vivian1
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1
Swaledale Landscape near Thwaite
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Swaledale Landscape near Thwaite

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1963

View of the Swaledale landscape near Thwaite. The view shows a u-shaped valley formed by glacial action. Mounted on Photo File card.

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Folk Medicine in Lancashire

Bell, Wendy Marion

1976

A study of folk medicine (prophylactics, customs, beliefs and cures), past and present, in Lancashire. Research was based on fieldwork interviews and the consultation of printed sources. Ten chapters ...

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Sound Recording, New Zealand

Dunn, Ginette

[1973]

Male Maori informant, recorded in Gisborne, New Zealand; talks about a female tribal composer, black magic, Maori laments, oral tradition, songs and singing competitions, Maori language, types of song...

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Questionnaire Response Books

1950-1961

This subseries contains the original response books in which the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers recorded informants' responses to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. A response book exists f...

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Sound Recording, Cumbria

Attebery, Louie W (1927-)

April 1972

[Collector announcement]; Vivian Fisher, recorded at home in Keswick on the 28 April 1972; talks about local gentry; dialect; John Banks and William Penn; childhood memories of Keswick; Queen Mary and...

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