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Dunn, Ginette13
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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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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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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

10 Jun 1980 - 15 Dec 1980

Jim Roche [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A087] talks about his Trade Union involvement as a Shop Steward in the Leeds clothing industry: industrial and social problems of members; church involvement in...

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Lowry's Town has Gone

Dixon, Beverley Anne

1980

A study of Salford, comprising six chapters. The introductory chapter includes quotations from the artist L. S. Lowry, and comments by others on his representation of people and place. The second chap...

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The Irish in Manchester

Dolan, Bernadette

1980

An introductory history of the Irish migrants to England, and in particular to Manchester, based on the collector's interviews with her father and one other Irish descendant living in the city.

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Cooke, Jane A

[1979-1980]

Schoolgirls recorded in the playground at Birdsedge First School, Birdsedge, on the 24 January 1980. Sing 'I'm Only a Poor Little Gymnast', 'Vote, Vote, Vote'[skipping]; talk about being on, and winte...

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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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Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

10 Dec 1980 - 15 Dec 1980

Jim Roche, recorded in his home, talks about the Leeds clothing industry in the 1920s/30s; starting work at John Baron's; describes contracting out, machinery, processes, hours of work, health (T.B. p...

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Some Aspects of Folk Life in Whitehaven

Graham, Jacqueline P

1980

A study of folk life in Whitehaven, based on information gathered from the collector's grandparents, visitors to their house and other family members, and covering roughly the seventy year period 1910...

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Folklore Correspondence

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1980-1982

This file contains correspondence between Tony Green and various correspondents concerning a variety of folk customs and beliefs. The file includes correspondence accompanying an article extracted fro...

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Crime

[1972-1983]

This file contains items on criminal activities, including highway robbery and coining. This includes an ms note from Ivor Clissold to Tony Green describing a custom undertaken on leaving prison, coll...

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"Gypsies and Travellers in Yorkshire"

Wyman, Melvyn

1980

M.A. study of Gypsy Traveller culture, and their material culture in particular, based on fieldwork carried out on camp sites in West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire, at the National Gypsy Education Cou...

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