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culture8
literature and folklore8
nature8
weather8
community life7
folklore6
manners and customs6
english language - dialects5
communication4
folk music4

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Attebery, Louie W (1927-)1
Chamberlain, John S1
Cross, Mrs1
Edge, Christine1
Fisher, Vivian1
Frear, Mr1
Frear, Mrs1
Love, Mrs1
Sykes, Herbert1
Sykes, Mrs1

Archive File

Miscellaneous Folklore Papers

1964-1979

Pamphlet by Charles Phythian-Adams, 'Local History and Folklore: A New Framework' ([London]: Standing Conference for Local History, 1975), 39 pp.; reprint from the 'Journal of the Folklore Institute',...

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Sky and Weather

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains items relating to weatherlore, including an ms. paper compiled by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivist Margaret Jackson, containing weatherlore, with bibliog...

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Popular Belief in Leicester

Edge, Christine

1965

A study of the folklore of people living in Leicester, based on interviews with friends, acquaintances and other informants, including residents of a local Old Peoples' Home. The study contains six ch...

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Sound Recording, Cumbria

Attebery, Louie W (1927-)

April 1972

[Collector announcement]; Vivian Fisher, recorded at home in Keswick on the 28 April 1972; talks about local gentry; dialect; John Banks and William Penn; childhood memories of Keswick; Queen Mary and...

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Archive File

Animals and Birds

1949-1981

This file contains items on folklore and terminology associated with animals and birds. This includes a photocopy of Tom Hey's article on Yorkshire names for wild birds, from the 'Dalesman', volume 40...

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Basket, Straw and Rope-Work

1960-1973

This file includes a photocopy of typed notes made by Rodney Cousins on basket-making, collected from H. Summers, basketmaker, Sutton-on-Trent (November 1969) and from Herbert Lloyd Johnes' 'The Baske...

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Student Folklore Dossiers

1971-1982

Student folklore dossiers, variously subtitled Scheme B - Folk Life 1: First Term Exercise, and Folk Life Exercise: First Term. Each compilation includes the student's biographical details, and items ...

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Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire

Chamberlain, John S

July/August 1961

Herbert Sykes of Wetwang relates items of weatherlore - rainbows, moon (and associated rhymes), wind direction, horses' behaviour/crows' behaviour (nesting) as signs of weather; Mrs. Sykes relates say...

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