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Total number of records: 202

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture200
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman2

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SubjectCount
culture202
english language - dialects145
folk music123
community life81
manners and customs54
communication46
literature and folklore41
persons36
folklore34
occupations34

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People and organisationsCount
Russell, Ian98
Hinchcliffe, Frank17
Broadhead, Bernard14
Gifford, Terry11
Loy, Lol11
Smith, David11
Broadhead, Albert10
Fretwell, Charlie9
Walton, Grace8
Couldwell, Jack7

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Up to 1999200
Up to latest2

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Various : c.1972-1999

c.1972-c.1995

Mainly typescript papers by Zygmunt Bauman likely written during his period of teaching at the University of Leeds. Titles include: "The individual dismembered"; "The party in the system management ...

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Members of Belgrave Street Synagogue
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Members of Belgrave Street Synagogue

[1965-1966]

Dr. Zvi Sofer (University of Göttingen) with members (male and female) of the Great Synagogue, Belgrave Street, Leeds (West Yorkshire). Dr. Sofer is third from the left.

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Traditional Singing in West Sheffield, 1970-1972

Russell, Ian

1977

Ph.D. thesis in three parts, subdivided into fifteen chapters. The study is a result of fieldwork in the suburban and village communities on the western outskirts of the city of Sheffield. Considerati...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

July 1972

Assembled company and soloists singing in the Hare and Hounds pub, Dore, Sheffield. The soloists are Bill Whiteand Albert Broadhead. Recorded 16 July 1972. [Tr. 3]

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

Jul 1972 - Aug 1972

Assembled company and soloists singing at the Sportsman pub, Lodge Moor, Sheffield. The soloists are Albert Broadhead and Eric Walker. Conclusion of a session recorded on 29 July 1972, which starts on...

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Sawdsheet

1972

This file contains issue no. 2 (Easter 1972) of 'Sawdsheet', a periodical on aspects of Anglo-Welsh dialect issued by the Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects at University College, Swansea (now the Univers...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

September 1972

Assembled company and soloists singing at the Sportsman pub, Lodge Moor, Sheffield. The soloists are Albert Broadhead, Bernard Broadhead, David Smith, Doug Marsden and Edith Lawson. Recorded 19 Septem...

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SED - Kolb

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1966-1974

The first file includes copy and original correspondence between Eduard Kolb, Stewart Sanderson, Harold Orton and others concerning Kolb's proposed use of Survey of English Dialects (SED) data to publ...

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Folklife Papers

Bringéus, Nils-Arvid

[1960-1972]

This file contains a typed paper, 'Svensk Folklivsforskning : Några Utvecklingslinjer' [undated - 1960s], on developments in Folk Life Studies in Sweden; and a typed paper, 'Gåsskötsel: Ett Diskuss...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

November 1972

Assembled company and soloists singing (with organ accompaniment) in the Royal pub, Dungworth, near Sheffield. The soloists are Howard Bower, Mr. Damand Joe Wallace. Includes also a medley of popular ...

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The Living Dialect of Middlewich (Cheshire)

Littlemore, Michael J

1973

A study of the dialect spoken in Middlewich in Cheshire, based on fieldwork data gathered during conversations with three local informants [in 1972].

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Proverbs: General

1971-1975

This file contains an ms. letter from Michael Cram to Angus McIntosh (Dept. of English Language, University of Edinburgh) regarding the origins of a proverb (26 November 1972), with an a accompanying ...

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