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Total number of records: 87

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persons87
culture65
manners and customs45
community life43
english language - dialects41
occupations41
folk music35
agriculture31
nature30
rites and ceremonies29

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Baldwin, John R9
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)6
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)6
Wilson, David L6
Shaw, David H5
Cook, R. G.4
Harris, Susan4
Morris, Patricia M4
Pattison, Susan4
Russell, Ian4

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Sound Recording, Norway

Bystad, Berit

4 April 1973

Recordings made in Norway. Schoolchildren give examples of singing games and rhymes; [?collector announcement]; Norwegian women sing and talk about singing games and rhymes; [?collector announcement];...

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Sound Recording, Nigeria

Olayemi, Val

[1968-1978]

Orin Ibeji (Songs in Praise of Twins). Woman and child sing two unidentified songs; woman and child[ren] (new informants) sings three unidentified songs. The original recordings were made in Ibadan in...

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Sound Recording, Derbyshire

Russell, Ian

September-October 1970

Children of Unstone Community Junior Middle School, Unstone, give examples of clapping, singing, ring and skipping games. Recorded in school and in the playground.

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Sound Recording

Open University

1979

Cassette 2 (sides 3 and 4) of a series of four tapes accompanying the Open University's Post-experience and Second Level Course (PE232), Language Development. This tape contains extracts of children's...

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Sound Recordings, Greater Manchester

Waller, Vivien M

1961-1962

Schoolgirls recite/chant/sing skipping rhymes; also ball bouncing and counting-out rhymes, song (some parodies), explanations of (chasing) games (including 'Farmer Farmer') and the circle game 'Sally ...

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Sound Recording, Derbyshire

Russell, Ian

14 March 1970

Jack Kay, Harold Allen , Clem, two unidentified contributors and the pub landlord singing at the Butcher's Arms pub, Marsh Lane. Includes fragments from the Old Horse play, parodies, a toast and recit...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

[1970-1971]

Compilation of several field recordings. Male and female informants talk about practical jokes, local ministers and preachers, recite dialect poetry, coffins carried on sledges over snow, anecdotes co...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and London

Bystad, Berit

October 1973

[Collector announcement]; four schoolgirls (aged 10-11) recorded in Quarry Street playground, Leeds, describe and give examples of singing and clapping games. Recorded on the 23 October 1973. [Tr. 1] ...

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Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire

Chamberlain, John S

July/August 1961

Schoolboy [? Stephen Sissons, recorded in a pub in Wetwang] describes children's games - jacks, hide and seek (including the dipping rhyme 'One Potato Two Potato'), Block (similar to hide and seek), B...

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Sound Recordings, London and Kent

Wetton, Anne Lindsey

July-August 1973

Compilation of field recordings made in Abbey Wood, Charlton, Plumstead and Swanley. Six informants sing a selection of popular love songs, including 'Dolly Gray', 'The Old Rustic Bridge', 'The Rose o...

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Language Development: Course Guide and Supplementary Material

Open University

1978-1979

This file contains items relating to the Open University post-experience second level course in Language Development, designed for in-service education of teachers. This includes an 'Introduction and ...

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Sound Recording, London

Wetton, Anne Lindsey

1974

Susan Carr [studying French at the University of Leeds], recorded in Abbey Wood on the 30 January 1974; sings and discusses a parody of the song 'Don't Go Down the Mine Dad', 'Don't Jump Off the Roof ...

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