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Cook, Catherine2
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Bonham-Carter, Victor1
Dunn, Ginette1
Emovon, Joshua A1
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Flinn, Gladys1
Fursman, Mr1
Garton, J. A.1
Green, Anthony E (1943-)1

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Sound Recordings, New Zealand

Dunn, Ginette

[1973]

Male informant [as for tapes LAVC/SRE/A659r - A662r], recorded in New Zealand; talks about a poem he has written for the collector, and translates a Maori leavetaking. [Tr. 1] Copy recording of a gr...

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Folklorists: Biography and Obituaries

1974-1980

This file comprises items containing biographical information on individual folklorists. It includes a black and white photograph, mounted on a specially-printed card, of Professor Jan Brunvand (Depar...

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Traditional Threats Review

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1981

This file contains a mounted photocopy of Stewart Sanderson's review of John Widdowson's 'If You Don't Be Good: Verbal Social Control in Newfoundland' (St. John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland,...

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Bonfire Traditions

1971-1977

This file contains items relating to bonfire traditions, and includes an anonymous ms. paper by an Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) student on bonfire traditions amongst other IDFLS ...

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Folk Tales in Edo as a Reflection of Culture

Emovon, Joshua A

1976

M.A. dissertation comprising an Introduction, five chapters and sample texts of Edo folktales. The Introduction discusses the name Edo (referring to the people who inhabit Benin City, Benin East and B...

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Professor Orton: Biography and Obituary Notices

1972-1975

This file comprises papers containing biographical information on, and obituaries of, Harold Orton. This includes printed biographical details of Orton's education and career, possibly from/for a biog...

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Nursery Rhymes

1969-1982

This file contains mounted magazine cuttings from 'Country Life' on nursery rhymes and their origins (May 1969); a mounted newspaper cutting from the 'Times' (8 February 1982) with an obituary of Pete...

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Folk Life Bibliographies

University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies

[1960-1979]

This file includes a number of typed bibliographies, most of which relate to the teaching of Folk Life Studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). An introductory bibliography, ...

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Easter Egg Survey

1962

This file contains items relating to the Folk Life Survey questionnaire on Easter Egg traditions. The survey appears to have been organised and conducted by Stewart Sanderson and Stanley Ellis. The fi...

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The Human Being

1969-1974

This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items relating to the human body. This includes a photocopy of a short article from 'The Guardian' on left-handedness (5 May 1974); and a mounted mag...

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Occasional Poetry

[1970-1973]

This file contains ms. notes on verses written following the Lofthouse Colliery disaster and their authors; a printed copy of Ephraim Mugglestone's poem, 'The Tragedy of the Lofthouse Colliery Disaste...

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Punishment

1964-1975

This file contains items relating to criminal justice and punishment, and includes Derek Exley's article on the Halifax Gibbet, a crude form of guillotine, extracted from 'The Ridings' (Autumn 1964), ...

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