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Total number of records: 32

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community life32
culture26
education14
english language - dialects13
occupations13
communication9
folk music9
folklore9
food9
war9

Top 10: People and organisations

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Upton, Clive S7
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)4
Lindley, Mrs2
Lindley, Raymond2
Morgan, Wilf2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2
Agar, Jack1
Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)1
Attebery, Louie W (1927-)1
Brown, Charles1

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Sound Recording, [United States]

Wilson, David L

8 March 1972

Peter Trigillis and Carol Faulb, recorded by themselves for David Wilson, talking about American university and college campus folklore: campus services; black students; co-ed. fraternity/sorority - U...

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Archive File

The Language of Storytelling

Graham, Jacqueline P

1980

A study which examines the telling of the same story to the collector by two different informants. Both concern a local character known as Buttonsticks, and were related to the collector in July 1979....

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Archive File

Military Humour

Wills, Caroline

1979

A study of verbal military humour, based on written items sent to the collector from a British Army unit based in Antwerp (70 items), and 500 items from the Humor in Uniform pages of the 'Readers' Dig...

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Archive Sub-series

Miscellaneous Collections of Folklore

1951-1985

This subseries contains typed and printed items relating to folklife activities and research, both in the United Kingdom, and in Europe and the United States. It includes printed ephemera and guides t...

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"Urban Negro Speech: Sociolinguistic Factors Affecting English Teachers"

Stewart, William A

[1965]

Typed paper intended for the 'Proceedings of the Conference on Urban Social Dialects and Language Learning' (National Council for Teachers of English, 1965). The paper discusses the difficulties of te...

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Musical Style and Social Context

Lomax, Alan (1915-2002)

[1959]

This file contains a photocopy of Alan Lomax's paper on the style of folk songs, from the 'American Anthropologist', volume 61 (1959), pp. 927-954. The paper compares folk cultures in the United State...

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Tape List of Contents

Cheichel, Edna

1970

3 typed copies of a report on the recordings taken at Donisthorpe. 6 copies of a table of contents for the recordings, with names and topics. Also included is the original folders used to hold the pap...

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Dialect recording in Whalton, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

25 Aug 1939

[Side 1] Joe and Billy talk briefly about cars; Joe outlines recent local cricket matches and personal contributions, compares cricket with football, mentions Billy's weekly trips to watch Newcastle U...

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Tristan da Cunha

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1961-1962

Typed original and copy correspondence from Stewart Sanderson and other scholars relating to proposals for research into traditional culture on Tristan da Cunha (November 1961-February 1962). This als...

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Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

18 Sep 1952

[Side 1] Fred tells series of anecdotes about local characters, Cissie and Fred discuss differences between dialects locally, Fred briefly mentions disputes between rival supporters from Holy Island o...

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Harold Orton - Correspondence

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1960-1973

Although separated into two physical file folders, these files were originally held as two folders within a single filing-cabinet file. The first file, originally labelled Harold Orton, contains a pri...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

8 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; Tommy Gallon, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about pub singing - starting, joining in, songs sung, time, landlord, changes and non-locals; learning songs; cycling to pub...

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