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Total number of records: 46

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture45
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman1

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SubjectCount
culture46
manners and customs33
community life29
folk music27
english language - dialects26
persons23
occupations21
social life and customs21
holidays20
rites and ceremonies19

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Dunn, Ginette7
Green, Anthony E (1943-)3
Wilson, David L3
Cooke, Jane A2
Harris, Susan2
Harrop, Peter K2
Mitchell, Elspeth Anne2
Pattison, Susan2
Savage, Priscilla (1881-1881)2
Sullivan, Keith Frederick2

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Up to latest1

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Harrop, Peter K

2 December 1978

[Collector announcement]; Bampton Mummers performing their Christmas play in Bampton Village Hall. Announcement at the end for Bampton Morris Dancers' party.

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Mitchell, Elspeth Anne

Nov 28 1979 - Dec 05 1979

Children recorded at Headingley Primary School, Leeds, describing and demonstrating a number of playground games, including chasing games, skipping rhymes and ball games; also games played away from s...

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Sound Recording,

Holloway, Charles

30 December 1978

The collector's parents, Mr. C. R. P. Holloway and Mrs. W. J. Holloway discuss family Christmas traditions - games, children's parties, belief in Santa Claus, Christmas walks, skating on Boxing Day, h...

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Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire

Sutton, Diane

2 Jan 1979 - 4 Jan 1979

Marjorie Sutton [collector's grandmother] and Irvin Sutton [collector's father] discuss pig-killing at Christmas; Lincoln butter market - travelling from Wragby to sell produce; Christmas parties - ga...

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Sound Recording,

Gebarowicz, Anita

December 1978

[Collector announcement, followed by gap in recording of c. 50 seconds]; collector's mother describes a typical Polish Christmas Eve - traditional food dishes for Christmas supper, decorating the tree...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Wilson, David L

11 December 1971

Allison Cooke and Janet Stern, recorded in Leeds, talking about American university and college campus folklore: rumour; freshman initiation; homecoming games; May Day weekend; Greek Weekend; Greek Si...

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The Evil Eye: Towards an Exhaustive Study

Lykiardopoulos, Amica

1979

M.A. study which discusses the belief that a glance can damage life and property, with sections on the action of casting the Evil Eye, protection from it, and the process of cure of the affected party...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Reed [location not given] talks about his family; farming for 54 years; ploughing with horses; his role as Church Warden and the role of the Church Council; reference to Lord Sidmouth and Lady Sid...

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Sound Recordings, [Derbyshire]

Wright, Fiona J

December 1978

[Collector announcement: informant's name, year and place of birth]; Linda Aldcroft talks about her childhood Christmases in Altrincham (Cheshire) - preparations, including Stir Up Sunday (cake/puddin...

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Sound Recordings, North East Lincolnshire

Whitney, Norman F

[1964]

Schoolchildren from Grimsby [interviewed by an unidentified woman, ?in a house rather than at school] describe singing/ring games, and give examples; also, describe chasing games, nursery rhymes (sung...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Cooke, Jane A

[1979]

Mrs. Jordan, recorded in Birdsedge, talks about her childhood games, played in Crawley, West Sussex. Describes ball games, 'Battle of Waterloo', French skipping (elastics), counting-out rhymes; song; ...

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Children's Games: Student Surveys

1979-1980

This file contains surveys of children's games collected by students at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) from schoolchildren in Leeds. These include Elspeth Mitchell's ms. transc...

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