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Total number of records: 96

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culture96
oral traditions96
community life83
literature and folklore47
folklore46
english language - dialects41
manners and customs41
occupations37
food28
persons24

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Bond, Francis Keith7
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)6
Byrne, Packie Manus5
Nalder, Peter Francis5
Olayemi, Rufus V K5
Pearce, Ben3
Cook, Catherine2
Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy2
Dunn, Ginette2
Edge, Christine2

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Sound Recordings, Norfolk and West Yorkshire

Traynor, Helena M

1977

The vicar of Heacham gives a history of the story of Pocahontas, including reference to the Rolfe family (Princess Pocahontas marries John Rolfe in the seventeenth century); buried in Gravesend in 161...

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A Synchronic Study of the Dialect of the Upper Holme Valley in the West Riding of Yorkshire

Dyson, B Ronald

1960

Volume One of this Ph.D. thesis includes an Introduction, notes on the informants and on methods and principles of phonetic transcription, phonetic transcriptions made from field tape recordings, a se...

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Proverbs and Sayings of the Potteries

1964-1965

This file contains a series of ms. correspondence with Stewart Sanderson from informants in the Potteries (i.e. the Stoke-on-Trent area), in response to articles in the 'Hanley Daily Sentinel' and the...

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Changes in the Transmission of the Story of Pocahontas in England from 1625 to the Present Day

Traynor, Helena M

1978

A study comprising six chapters. The Introduction contains sections on the transmission of folktales, the story of Pocahontas, types of changes in the transmission of folktales and the format of the c...

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The Romance of Sassi: A Critical and Comparative Study

Shan, Harnam Singh

1964

A study of the Indian tragic romance legend of 'Sassi Punnun', submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Indian Lore and Literature) in the Arts Faculty of the University of London, through th...

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Oral History Research Papers

[1950s-1981]

Three copies of a leaflet on the oral history programme at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; and an article on George Freeston and his efforts to record and preserve the history of Blisworth, ...

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Oral History: Associations, Workshops, Conferences

1969-1977

Leaflet on oral history and the Regional Oral History Office at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; printed review of the Oral History Micropublication Plan at the Butler Library...

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Dialect recording in Stamfordham, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

05 Apr 1939

[Side 1] John Johnson talks about father farming at Black Heddon before being sacked for stopping squire crossing his land and moving to Shotley Bridge, father died when John was seven and John return...

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Jokes, Anecdotes, Etc.

1979-1980

This file contains an ms. collection of jokes made by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) undergraduate student Kathryn Dearden at Christmas, 1979; and mounted newspaper cuttings from t...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Mr. J. F. Bond [collector's father] talks about the experience of World War Two in Liverpool; Army volunteer (training in Perth) - posted to Normandy, through Europe to Berlin; riots in Trieste; his y...

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Folktales: Miscellaneous 2

[1970-1973]

This file contains items relating to folklore and folktale, including folktales from Sub-Saharan Africa. This includes a photocopy of an ms. paper by Lindi Shembi Williams of the University of Botswan...

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An Experiment in Oral Transmission

Latham-Thorpe, Jane Elizabeth

1976

Postgraduate study of the changes that occur in the process of the oral transmission of a shaggy-dog story, a children's joke, a contemporary legend, a local legend from Whitby and a ghost story. The ...

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