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Total number of records: 125

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SubjectCount
community life125
culture117
folk music82
english language - dialects66
occupations52
education43
manners and customs43
persons37
food34
associations, institutions, etc32

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette54
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)19
Bergal, Nancy Ann12
Webb, Percy11
Cooke, Jane A7
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)7
Belton, George (1898-1980)5
Crook, Rosemary5
Curtin, John5
Ling, Ruby4

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Survey of Vernacular Architecture, 1980-1981

1980-1981

This file contains photocopies of two papers submitted for the FLS I student exercise for the undergraduate degree in Dialect and Folk Life Studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (I...

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Christmas Traditions: Student Survey, 1979-1980

1979-1980

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...

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Survey of Domestic Eating Arrangements, 1980-1981

1980-1981

This file contains papers written by students of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) during an exercise forming part of the undergraduate degree in Folk Life Studies. The students w...

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A Diachronic Study of Aspects of the Celebration of Passover in England. 1920s and 1980s Compared

Niman, Jonathan L

1983

A study of the Jewish festival of Passover in England, comparing recollections and experiences recorded during interviews with residents of a Jewish Old People's Home in Manchester (in 1982), and gath...

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Harold Orton Research Room Commemorative Sign

Winters, Nancy

June 10th 1980

This sign was produced for the opening on June 25th 1980 of a research room in the University of Leeds, commemorating the name of Harold Orton .

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Marble-Finishing

1980

This file contains a cutting from the 'Yorkshire Evening Post' on Allan Preston, a tradesman skilled in the art of giving surfaces a marble-effect finish (14 July 1980).

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Folk Life Dissertations: 5th and 6th Supplements

University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies

1979-1980

Typed supplements to Stewart Sanderson's 1971 catalogue of theses and dissertations produced by students at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). These supplements list theses submit...

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Application for Copies of Material: IDFLS

1977-1992

Application forms and accompanying correspondence; two lists (ms., typescript photocopies) of dialect theses held in the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies library. The bulk of these items wer...

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Current Research File

University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies

1976-1981

This file contains typed lists, with ms. annotations, of Work in Progress amongst students based at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies. The lists include names, details of research and sta...

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Archivist File

[1975-1980]

This file contains a photocopy of the first supplementary list of folk life dissertations held in the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies, covering the period 1971-1975 (i.e. supplementary to S...

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Source Lists

1975-1980

This file contains a typed list of the books held in the Orton Research Room (as at 1980), and source lists compiled by Margaret Jackson and Brenda Neale for the subjects Education (1975), Folklore an...

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University Open Day

May 12th 1980

This file contains a typed letter from Ian Rattee (Chairman of the Organising Group), sent to all Departmental Open Day Liaison Officers [possibly Tony Green for the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life...

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