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communication13
community life13
culture10
museums7
education6
archive administration3
english language - dialects3
folklore3
manners and customs3
associations, institutions, etc2

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Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)3
Barker, Diana J1
Collins, J M Mrs1
Mckelvie, Donald1
Stevenson, Peter1
Winters, Nancy1

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Archive File

University Open Day

May 12th 1980

This file contains a typed letter from Ian Rattee (Chairman of the Organising Group), sent to all Departmental Open Day Liaison Officers [possibly Tony Green for the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life...

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Harold Orton Research Room Commemorative Sign

Winters, Nancy

June 10th 1980

This sign was produced for the opening on June 25th 1980 of a research room in the University of Leeds, commemorating the name of Harold Orton .

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Sedan Chair

[1970s]

Photographic postcard from the West Yorkshire Folk Museum, Shibden Hall, Halifax. The postcard shows a woman in period costume, sitting in a sedan chair which dates from ca. 1790. The door of the seda...

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Society for Folk Life Studies 1963 Conference Arrangements

1962-1963

The Society for Folk Life Studies held its Third Annual Conference at the University of Leeds' Bodington Hall [of Residence], in 1963. This file contains typed correspondence between the conference or...

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Industrial Archaeology

1977-1981

This file contains leaflets and programmes relating to the Ironbridge Gorge Museum, and the Institute of Industrial Archaeology. The Ironbridge Gorge Museum leaflets include information on study and r...

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Gazette

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1961-1969

This file contains correspondence relating to Stewart Sanderson's professional duties, and includes original and copy papers. It includes correspondence concerning the University Council (July and Oct...

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Building Technique

1966-1973

This file contains items relating to buildings and construction techniques, and includes photocopies of maps showing the location of aisle-trusses in Welsh buildings, and aisled buildings in Yorkshire...

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An Investigation into the Play of Children Living in a Traditionally Working Class Area of Back-to-Back Housing Property, in Leeds, in May and June, 1962

Collins, J M Mrs; McKelvie, Donald

1962

A study of schoolchildren at play in Leeds, combining researches in education and folk life by two postgraduate students at the University of Leeds. Mrs. Collins was taking a Diploma in Curricular Stu...

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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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University Archive

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1960-1980

This file contains original and copy correspondence, and related papers, concerning Stewart Sanderson's activities as an academic folklorist. Its contents seem to have been selected by Sanderson for d...

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Anglo-Swedish Scheme

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1968-1969

This file consists of original and copy correspondence, and related papers, concerning a postgraduate course in Swedish folk museums devised by Stewart Sanderson and Ingemar Liman. It includes ms. and...

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The Living Dialect of Windhill Near Bradford Yorkshire W.R.

Barker, Diana J

1959

A study of the dialect spoken in Windhill, near Shipley in West Yorkshire, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with five informants, and a tape-recording of two Windhill inhabitants, ...

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