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Christmas Traditions: Student Survey, 1968-1969
1968-1969
This file contains papers produced by students for the undergraduate degree in Folk Life Studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The papers are the result of a survey exerci...
Box (B) Reference, research, reviews and papers [c.1969-1998]
c.1963-c.1998
Reference, research and papers as found together. Mainly covers period 1969-1998. Box 1: 1969-1971 Box 2: 1970-1980 Box 3: 1992-1998
Anglo-Swedish Scheme
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1968-1969
This file consists of original and copy correspondence, and related papers, concerning a postgraduate course in Swedish folk museums devised by Stewart Sanderson and Ingemar Liman. It includes ms. and...
"Gypsy Funeral Customs"
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1969
This file contains two copies of Sanderson's paper, 'Gypsy Funeral Customs', offprinted from 'Folklore', volume 80 (Autumn 1969), pp. 181-187. The paper discusses the death and funeral customs practis...
The Living Dialect of Walsden, Lancashire
Leach, Elaine
1969
A study of the dialect spoken in Walsden, West Yorkshire (in Lancashire when the study was undertaken), based on data collected from three local informants during 1968 and early 1969. An introductio...
Forestry
1969-1971
This subseries, comprising one file only, includes Oliver Rackham's article on the ancient woodlands of East Anglia, extracted from 'Country Life' (21 October 1971), pp. 1062-1066; William Seymour's a...
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...
SED Phonological Map: Hammer
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Early-mid 1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map, completed in ms. and typescript, for SED question I.7.13, Hammer, mapping the distribution of responses where the initial H is retained, and where no H is pronou...
You and Thou in Northern England
Evans, William
1969
This file contains a photocopy of William Evans' paper on the survival of the old second-person singular pronoun thou in Northern England, based on data collected by the Survey of English Dialects (SE...
Urban Folklore
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1964-1980
This file contains items on contemporary legends and folklore, and includes an ms. letter from A. Tozer (to Stewart Sanderson?) on modern folktales (16 December 1964), prompted by an article in 'The G...
Tape Recording Transcriptions
1956-1970
Typed transcriptions of Anglo-Manx ( Isle of Man) dialect ( Michael Barry, 1966) and East Yorkshire dialect ( John Widdowson, 1970). Also typed transcriptions of Survey of English Dialects (SED) infor...
Games Without Special Equipment
1959-1973
This file contains items relating to games played by children which require no special equipment. This includes an ms. letter from Doris Hepworth to Tony Green on the game 'Old Roger is Dead', accompa...