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Total number of records: 14

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture12
Leeds Russian Archive1

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folklore14
culture12
manners and customs10
community life7
occupations7
oral traditions7
english language - dialects6
folk music6
rites and ceremonies6
literature and folklore5

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Faroe Islands1
Iceland1

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Cook, Catherine2
Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy2
Green, Anthony E (1943-)2
Weatherill, Frank (1892-1974)2
Brown, Miss1
Dodd, Mr1
Dunn, Ginette1
Geddes, John1
Ingram, Alec1
Jones, Garnett1

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Archive Print Item

A harvest of Russian children's literature

Morton, Miriam

1967

An anthology of favorite Russian poems, stories and folk tales for children, arranged in sections for three different age groups and a collection of folklore.

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Pen and pencil sketches of Faröe and Iceland : With an appendix containing translations from the Icelandic and 51 illustrations engraved on wood by W. J. Linton

Symington, Andrew James (1825-); Ólafur Pálsson (1814-1876)

1862

Appendices: I. Icelandic stories and fairy tales, tr. by the Rev. O. Pálsson. II. Specimens of old Icelandic poetry. III. Poems on northern subjects, in English and Icelandic. IV. Information for int...

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Long Narrative Verse

[1968-1970]

This file contains four offprinted papers by Michael Cherniss on epic poems, being 'The Progress of the Hoard in Beowulf', offprinted from the 'Philological Quarterly', volume XLVII, number 4 (October...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

26 October 1973

Frank Weatherill, recorded at home in Danby; sings an unidentified song about farmers' lads; relates anecdotes/stories regarding a dog and a hare, dialect, friends reunited, father quarrying and workm...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

17 August 1973

Frank Weatherill , recorded at home in Danby; talks about a local storyteller; tall tales; storytelling as a form of amusement; local legends regarding hammer throwing (example from Lastingham); FW's ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

[1970/1971]

Fred Longthorne, recorded at home, talking about practical jokes; the supernatural experiences of others in ?Gill How mine; a local legend concerning John Kay's grave; lead mining - death of miner, ac...

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The Oral History and Traditions of the Lancashire Textile Workers

Taylor, Monica

1972

A study of some features of working, domestic and recreational life in the cotton town of Haslingden in Lancashire, in the early part of the twentieth century. The description of such aspects is based...

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Fishing Traditions in South Ayrshire

Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy

1974

M.A. dissertation on the fishing industry in South Ayrshire, written in two parts. The first, Fishing Methods and Marketing, has chapters on salmon fishing, creel fishing, line fishing, ring netting, ...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

[1970-1971]

George Metcalfe of Middlesmoor talks about Dead Mans Hill and the legend of a couple who robbed and murdered people on the pack trail, and buried them in the peat moorland where the bodies are preserv...

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Sound Recording, New Zealand

Dunn, Ginette

[1973]

Male Maori informant, recorded on 20th May 1973 in Gisborne, New Zealand; introduces himself and the collector, and describes the circumstances of their meeting; talks about his own research into Maor...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Thomson, Sydney

November 1972

The children of Royal Park Primary School, Headingley, Leeds, recorded on the 21 November 1972; talk about poems and writing stories; Christmas presents, trees, decorations; collector talks about Chri...

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Sound Recordings, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire

Lewis, Wendy Hilary

[1973-1974]

?Collector reads from W. A. Clouston's 'The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons, or, Fools and their Follies' (1888) - blason populaire associated with the town of Gotham, and the Fools/Men of Goth...

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