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Total number of records: 26

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manners and customs26
social life and customs26
community life21
culture21
rites and ceremonies17
holidays15
entertainment events12
occupations12
persons12
folk music11

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Wilson, David L3
Dunn, Ginette2
Aldcroft, Linda1
Bell, Emerson1
Benjamin, Joseph1
Bryon, Fiona1
Calvert, Valerie E1
Cooke, Allison1
Cooke, Jane A1
Dewsbury, Sidney1

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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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Sound Recording, Greater Manchester

Dixon, Beverley Anne

4 March 1979

[Collector announcement]; collector's parents, recorded in Flixton; discussion of Christmas traditions, comparing past and present; cards and presents, decorations; a typical Christmas Day - food, tel...

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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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Preston Guild Merchant: A Study of Traditional Involvement in a Civic Ceremony

Monaghan, Ann M

1974

A dissertation providing impressions of the 1972 Preston Guild Merchant ( Preston, Lancashire), based on personal observation and interviews with local people (who also provided information on the 195...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Wilson, David L

17 November 1971

Reginald Vaughan and Donald Stack, recorded in Leeds, talking about American university and college campus folklore from the 1950s: freshmen initiation rites - first informant says none at Harvard Uni...

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Sound Recordings, [Cambridgeshire]

Lyons, Margaret

Dec 1978

[Collector announcement]; collector's grandmother [ recorded in Cambridgeshire]; offers childhood recollections of Christmas in the 1910s/1920s - presents, food and drink, supper, singsongs, games (ch...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Wilson, David L

22 April 1972

Emerson Bell and Donald Uchtman, recorded in Leeds, talking about American university and college campus folklore: freshmen's dormitories and spelling words by lit and unlit windows; no class unity at...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

2 April 1976

Frank Raw, recorded at home in Danby with his wife, talks about the village; the decline of the young population and job opportunities in the Yorkshire Dales; changes in farming methods (mechanisation...

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