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Archive File

Pace Egg and Mumming Plays, and Christmas Carols

Addy, Sidney Oldall (1848-1933)

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy (made in the early 1970s) of part of an ms. notebook, with printed extracts pasted in, compiled by Sidney Oldall Addy probably during the 1870s. This includes ms. notes ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Calvert, Kit (1903-1984)

[1960s]

Kit Calvert, recorded by himself at home in Hawes; recollects his childhood and the calendar custom known as New Year's Gifting - walking the village of Hawes, collecting gifts from villagers (pennies...

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Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire

Chamberlain, John S

July/August 1961

Herbert Sykes of Wetwang relates items of weatherlore - rainbows, moon (and associated rhymes), wind direction, horses' behaviour/crows' behaviour (nesting) as signs of weather; Mrs. Sykes relates say...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Sofer, Zvi d (1980)

[1965-1966]

Various informants recorded at Donisthorpe Hall Old People's Home in Leeds, singing Jewish songs and relating Jewish folk tales. Reverend Knopf and his wife sing an unidentified song (with piano accom...

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Audiotape Sound Recordings

1954-1981

The majority of the tapes in this series contain fieldwork recordings made by students pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate courses in folk life or dialect at the University of Leeds, through the D...

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