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Total number of records: 38

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Archives35
Books and printed items3

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture34
Brotherton Collection3
English Literature2
Herbert Read Collection1

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education38
community life34
culture34
literature and folklore34
english language - dialects16
communication15
folklore14
manners and customs13
oral traditions12
archive administration10

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Crook, Rosemary2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2
Pearce, Ben2
Agar, Jack1
Attebery, Louie W (1927-)1
Bonham-Carter, Victor1
Courtis, Jim1
Davey, Gwenda1
Eliot, T S (1888-1965)1
Fisher, Vivian1

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To criticize the critic, and other writings

Eliot, T S (1888-1965)

1978

This collection originally published: 1965.

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The use of imagination : educational thought and the literary mind

Walsh, William (1916-1996)

1959

Bibliographical footnotes.

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Archive Judaica Collection

Cecil Roth Collection

1200-1999

Throughout his life Cecil Roth (1899-1970) collected books, manuscripts, and art objects. The books and manuscripts of scholarly interest, and modern books, were acquired by Leeds University Library t...

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The reflector : representing human affairs, as they are : and may be improved

Shaw, Peter (1694-1763)

1750

Attributed to Peter Shaw.--NUC pre-1956. Essays. I iv: "Of the Sciences" [including "Natural Philosophy" and "Rhetoric"]; I viii: "Of Authors and Censors"; I ix: "Of Poetry and Rhime"; I x: "Of Poet...

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Archive Sub-series

Questionnaire Response Books: Miscellaneous Items

[ca. 1950]

This subseries consists of various forms of printed, blank (i.e. not completed in ms.) pages intended for recording the responses of informants to elements of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire.

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Archive File

Oral History Research Papers

[1950s-1981]

Three copies of a leaflet on the oral history programme at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; and an article on George Freeston and his efforts to record and preserve the history of Blisworth, ...

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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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School of English Departments

University of Leeds. School of English

[1965-1980]

This diagram shows the departments and research institutes within the School of English at the University of Leeds, and the publications they produce and/or contribute to. It also lists the postgradua...

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Reviews (Academic)

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1952-1971

Offprint and photocopied reviews of 'A Questionnaire for a Linguistic Atlas of England', the SED Basic Material volumes ( Introduction and Volume 1, parts 1-3) and British and American dialect atlases...

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Towards a Methodology of the Study of Folk-Life: With Special Reference to the Kosovo Epic Cycle in its Social and Historical Context

Martin, Allan

1970

M.A. study containing chapters on the development of folklore study and the problem posed by this development, the possibility of change in the present study of folklore and an approach to a case stud...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

16 February 1981

[Collector announcement]; Ben Pearce, recorded in Leeds on the 16 February 1981 [conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A601]; talks about bombers flying in formation, attacking Sumatra...

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An Experiment in Oral Transmission

Latham-Thorpe, Jane Elizabeth

1976

Postgraduate study of the changes that occur in the process of the oral transmission of a shaggy-dog story, a children's joke, a contemporary legend, a local legend from Whitby and a ghost story. The ...

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