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Total number of records: 80

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture79
folk music79
english language - dialects68
community life54
occupations43
agriculture33
persons25
food24
folk dancing22
manners and customs21

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette80
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)29
Webb, Percy16
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)14
Poacher, Cyril (1910-1999)8
Ling, Ruby7
Savage, Lenny6
Belton, George (1898-1980)5
Holy Jim5
Jimmy5

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Sound Recording, London

Dunn, Ginette

5 June 1974

George Belton, recorded at the Dingles Folk Club; sings 'The Lad in the Scotch Brigade', 'I am a Roving Navvy Man', 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', 'Never No More for Me', 'The Sussex Toas...

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Sound Recordings, London

Dunn, Ginette

1974

George Belton, recorded in the Rising Sun pub in Catford on 21 May 1974; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', 'Never No More for Me'; tells joke about two men in a psychiatric hospital; s...

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Sound Recording, Berkshire

Dunn, Ginette

22 June 1974

Fred Jordan, recorded at the Berkshire Folk Festival in Reading; sings 'The Dark Eyed Sailor', 'The Noble Foxhunting' ( 'Dido and Bendigo'), 'The Outlandish Knight', 'The Dark Eyed Stranger', 'Haul Aw...

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Sound Recordings, Sussex

Dunn, Ginette

1974

George Belton, recorded at home in Birdham (West Sussex) on the 4 May 1974; talks about his brothers and sisters and their occupations; his own working life on the farm; farming at Madehurst; the vill...

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Sound Recordings, West Sussex and Leicestershire

Dunn, Ginette

1973-1974

A recording made in George Belton's home in Birdham on the 4 May 1974, of a recording of him singing at Loughborough Folk Festival in 1973. His occasional comments, and the sound of his budgie, are au...

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Sound Recordings, West Sussex and London

Dunn, Ginette

21 May 1974

George Belton, recorded at home in Birdham; relates biographical details - birthplace in Surrey, schooling, farm work including land work, milking cows and working with horses; childhood memories of g...

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Sound Recording, Manchester

Dunn, Ginette

26 April 1974

Fred Jordan, singing at the Bay Horse pub in Manchester. Sings 'The Bonny Bunch of Roses', 'The False Bride', 'The Galway Shawl', 'We Shepherds are the Best of Men', 'The Outlandish Knight', 'Jones's ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

31 August 1975

Singing at the Butley Oyster pub. Percy Webb sings 'Green is the Laurel'; Percy Ling sings 'The Boy with No Shoes'; Percy Webb sings 'Ball of Yarn'; Percy Ling sings 'The Lobster'; Percy Webb sings 'H...

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Sound Recordings, Shropshire and Redcar

Dunn, Ginette

1974

Fred Jordan, recorded in Aston Munslow on 27 April 1974. Sings 'Banks of the Sweet Primroses'and 'The Spinning Wheel'; discusses other songs and the singer Bob Roberts. [Tr. 2]. Conclusion of session ...

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Popular Singing Traditions in and Around Snape and Blaxhall

Dunn, Ginette

1977

Ph.D. thesis in three parts, subdivided into nine chapters covering folksong scholarship and the development of a critical methodology, the histories of the villages of Blaxhall and Snape, men's singi...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

16 November 1974

Percy Ling, recorded at home in Snape; talks about singing at the Golden Key pub in Snape, and meeting his future wife there; wife's family; segregation of men and women in the pub; attitude to women ...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

26 June 1974

Bob Hart, Lenny Savage and Jack Foreman, recorded at the Golden Key pub in Snape; general conversation [much background noise, distortion of voices, multiple conversations, makes this section hard to ...

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