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Questionnaire Response Books: Miscellaneous Items
[ca. 1950]
This subseries consists of various forms of printed, blank (i.e. not completed in ms.) pages intended for recording the responses of informants to elements of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire.
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, ...
Source Lists
1975-1980
This file contains a typed list of the books held in the Orton Research Room (as at 1980), and source lists compiled by Margaret Jackson and Brenda Neale for the subjects Education (1975), Folklore an...
School of English Departments
University of Leeds. School of English
[1965-1980]
This diagram shows the departments and research institutes within the School of English at the University of Leeds, and the publications they produce and/or contribute to. It also lists the postgradua...
Reviews (Academic)
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1952-1971
Offprint and photocopied reviews of 'A Questionnaire for a Linguistic Atlas of England', the SED Basic Material volumes ( Introduction and Volume 1, parts 1-3) and British and American dialect atlases...
Towards a Methodology of the Study of Folk-Life: With Special Reference to the Kosovo Epic Cycle in its Social and Historical Context
Martin, Allan
1970
M.A. study containing chapters on the development of folklore study and the problem posed by this development, the possibility of change in the present study of folklore and an approach to a case stud...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
16 February 1981
[Collector announcement]; Ben Pearce, recorded in Leeds on the 16 February 1981 [conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A601]; talks about bombers flying in formation, attacking Sumatra...
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 ...
Papers on Children's Songs and Folklore
Davey, Gwenda
1975-1980
This file contains documentation produced to accompany the 'Multicultural Cassette Series: Stories, Songs and Rhymes for Young Children', produced by Gwenda Davey, and recorded by Norman O'Conner (Vic...
Microfilm of Postgraduate Thesis on the Dialect of Broughton in Furness
Micro Methods Limited
[1970s]
A copy of Mabel Round's M.A. thesis (Leeds, 1949), 'The Living Dialect of Broughton in Furness, in the County of Lancashire'. The thesis is based on data collected in Broughton in Furness (Lancashire)...
Papers on Fieldwork
[ca. 1969]
Photocopies of Donald A. MacDonald, 'Fieldwork: Collecting Oral Literature' (pp. 408-430); Warren E. Roberts, 'Fieldwork: Recording Material Culture' (pp. 431-444); George List, 'Fieldwork: Recording ...
Miscellaneous Folklore Papers
1964-1979
Pamphlet by Charles Phythian-Adams, 'Local History and Folklore: A New Framework' ([London]: Standing Conference for Local History, 1975), 39 pp.; reprint from the 'Journal of the Folklore Institute',...