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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
6 January 1977
[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; talks about Gypsy Traveller music and singing; local dance bands and musicians; the song 'Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major'...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Bergal, Nancy Ann
27 January 1980
Peter Thorp, recorded at home in Leeds; talks about his interest in folk music; carol singing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day morning in Leeds - tradition declined due to slum clearances, break up ...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
11 September 1976
[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; talks about living in the village; his time away and life during World War Two (air raids); his MBE for services to archaeo...
The Distinction Between Folk and Popular Music
Karpeles, Maud
[1968]
This file contains two photocopies of Maud Karpeles' paper discussing why popular songs cannot be considered as folk songs, from the 'Journal of the International Folk Music Council', volume XX (1968)...
The Role of Tradition in Agrarian Protest: England and Wales in the Nineteenth Century
Seal, Graham
1978
M.A. thesis in three parts. The first, The Traditional Nature of Agrarian Society, contains sections on the customary society, the Corn Riots, rituals of justice and the highwayman tradition. Part Two...
Towards a Methodology of the Study of Folk-Life: With Special Reference to the Kosovo Epic Cycle in its Social and Historical Context
Martin, Allan
1970
M.A. study containing chapters on the development of folklore study and the problem posed by this development, the possibility of change in the present study of folklore and an approach to a case stud...
Folklore Notes
Mason, Mr
[1960s-1970s]
This file contains a photocopy of a manuscript and newspaper cuttings compiled by a Mr. Mason ca. 1870s-1880s, which forms a collection of folklore items. Although varied, there is a regional element ...
Political & literary essays, 1908-1913
Cromer, Evelyn Baring Earl of (1841-1917)
1913
Reprinted from the Edinburgh and Quarterly reviews, the Nineteenth century and after, and the Spectator. Political and literary essays, 1908-1913.
"Papers on Gypsies"
Lloyd Weedon, Trevor
1974
This file contains photocopies of ms. papers by Lloyd Weedon on gypsies. The first paper focusses on the Gypsy Traveller communities of Ireland and Scotland, and includes discussions on Irish Gypsy Tr...
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...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Bergal, Nancy Ann
24 January 1980
John Curtin, recorded in his home in the Armley area of Leeds. Talks about the Second Folk Revival; Topic Records, 1950s; the BBC and A. L. Lloyd and Alan Lomax; nineteenth century song collectors; li...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
1 December 1976
[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; sings and plays [ 'All the Darkies are A-Weeping'] on the ukulele, followed by [ 'She's My Sweetheart'], [ 'Wait 'Til the C...