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holidays78
manners and customs78
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culture66
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rites and ceremonies49
social life and customs45
occupations43
nature40
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Tammivaara, Irmeli6
Russell, Ian5
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Pasanen, Leena3
Wright, John T3
Buckland, Theresa Jill2
Bury, Jack2
Cooke, Jane A2
Cordwent, Mr2
Gledhill, James2

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

March-April 1971

Col Goodison, recorded in his home in Sheffield, singing and in conversation. Sings fragment of 'Give Me the Spade'; talks about other songs/singers, including his father; Knur and Spell; Christmas ca...

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Hornblower
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Hornblower

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1964

Hornblower blowing a horn at Bainbridge ( Wensleydale). Bainbridge once served as a foresters' headquarters in the Wensleydale forest, a hunting district owned by the Lord of Middleham. The horn was b...

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Hornblower
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Hornblower

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1964

Hornblower blowing a horn at Bainbridge ( Wensleydale). Bainbridge once served as a foresters' headquarters in the Wensleydale forest, a hunting district owned by the Lord of Middleham. The horn was b...

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Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

Mar 1939

[Side 1] Jane and George talk about Rothbury Races, recall year bridge collapsed and horse called Sultan breaking its neck, discuss forthcoming races and hope for decent weather, describe watching rac...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian; Gifford, Terry

December 1971

Jack Couldwell, interviewed in his own home in Worrallby Terry Gifford. Describes Christmas carol singing in Worrall, the route followed in Sheffield; part singing, piano accompaniment (symphonies) an...

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Webber, M R

[1965-1966]

Unaccompanied male/female singers, singing solos and duets. Includes May songs (May 1st garlanding, May 29th Royal Oak Day), and children's singing games recorded in the playground of a Luton Junior S...

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Reports on Mumming from the Industrial West Riding and Nottinghamshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1966

This file contains a typed paper by Tony Green giving information on mumming plays collected by himself and Mary Greenwald in West Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. This includes information collected fr...

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Pace Egg and Mumming Plays, and Christmas Carols

Addy, Sidney Oldall (1848-1933)

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy (made in the early 1970s) of part of an ms. notebook, with printed extracts pasted in, compiled by Sidney Oldall Addy probably during the 1870s. This includes ms. notes ...

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Ripon Sword Dancers

Bland, David

December 1972

Three sword dancers performing in the street on Boxing Day, in Ripon (North Yorkshire). The men wear costumes consisting of smock-like garments covered with small pieces of coloured and patterned mate...

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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Buckland, Theresa Jill

08/Sep/1975 - 08/Sep/1975

Douglas Fowell, accompanist to the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, recorded in Abbots Bromley; plays tunes on the piano accordion: 'Cock of the North', 'The Girl I Left Behind Me' , 'River of Jordan', 'Off...

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Sports and Athletic Games

1961-1974

This file contains items relating to sports and games of athletic ability, skill, strength and endurance. This includes a copy of 'The Ancient Haxey Hood Game (An Ancestor of Football?)', by J. W. ff....

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Fifty Years of Wragby Life

Sutton, Diane

1980

A dissertation which looks at life in the Lincolnshire village of Wragby during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. The information it presents is based on the memories and printed ephemer...

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