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Total number of records: 68

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cooking68
food67
community life66
culture47
manners and customs45
nature40
occupations36
social life and customs34
holidays32
home28

Top 10: People and organisations

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)12
Calvert, Valerie E5
Dunn, Ginette4
Tammivaara, Irmeli4
Barry, Michael V (1935-)3
Crook, Rosemary3
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)3
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Parry, David (1937-)3
Bell, Brigid M2

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Sound Recording, [Location Unknown]

Bell, Brigid M

24 December 1978

[Collector announcement]; collector's family recorded in conversation whilst eating Christmas Eve supper; discussion covers the food served, Prince Charles' potential bride, Monaco royal family; Luxem...

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Easter Egg Survey

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-); Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1962-1963

This sub-subseries includes typed and photocopied questionnaires and covering letters, and ms. and typed responses, to the Folk Life Survey questionnaire on Easter Egg traditions. The survey appears t...

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Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

18 Jul 1938

[Side 1] Willie and Leslie recall cooking 'poddish' [= porridge], memories of route march day after drinking too much beer, distaste for potted meat. [Side 2] Andrew and Willie discuss plans for Belfo...

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Beastings Research

Brunk, Wille

[1967]

Items relating to Wille Brunk's research into beastings, i.e. the first milk drawn from a cow after calving (or bovine colostrum), and its uses. Brunk conducted much of this research through the use o...

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Easter Egg Survey

1962

This file contains items relating to the Folk Life Survey questionnaire on Easter Egg traditions. The survey appears to have been organised and conducted by Stewart Sanderson and Stanley Ellis. The fi...

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"Gypsy Mother and Child"

Hucklebridge, John

1968

Mrs. Light and one of the Light family sons, sitting on the roadside at an unknown location in Wiltshire. A kettle hangs over a small fire on a long metal hook which has been rooted in the ground. Mou...

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"Gypsy Mother and Child"

Hucklebridge, John

1968

Mrs. Light and one of the Light family sons, sitting on the roadside at an unknown location in Wiltshire. A kettle hangs over a small fire on a long metal hook which has been rooted in the ground. Mou...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Ronague, Isle of Man

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

Nov 1958

[Side 1] Amanda talks about local farms and farmhouses, recalls open fireplace in childhood home, remembers trips by horse and cart to collect ling for fire, describes apparatus for cooking and baking...

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Cures

1965-1978

This file includes a typed paper by Mrs. P. Brimson on her grandmother, the wise woman Annie Leech of Bentham (North Yorkshire), including some of her cures and recipes (November 1978); a photocopy of...

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Plant Lore

1961-1980

This file includes an ms. letter from Gillian Bulmer to Stewart Sanderson on names of apples (12 November 1975); a photocopy of Grace Pleasant Wellborn's paper on plantlore in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'T...

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The Traditional Cookery of a Yorkshire Housewife

Starkey, Helen

1977

A study of one Yorkshire woman's cooking and baking traditions, and her use of recipes and methods of cooking passed on to her from her mother and grandmother. The study begins with a brief section on...

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Dyed Egg
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Dyed Egg

Calvert, Valerie E

[1961-1962]

Pasche egg decorated to resemble a figure wearing a crinoline, on a wooden board in a house in Workington (Cumbria).

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