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Settlement
[1950-1973]
This sub-subseries contains items relating to settlers and types of settlement. The items relate mostly to Ireland.
Land Divisions
1859-1981
This sub-subseries contains items relating to land divisions and boundaries, including evidence of land divisions and use, and types of physical boundary.
Places and Districts
1961-1978
The items in this sub-subseries relate to the study of particular localities, in particular placenames and their origins. The focus is on specific places in England and Wales.
F: Nature
1947-1981
This series contains items on subjects relating to the natural world, including folklore and terminology. The subject matter largely covers weatherlore, natural formations and the landscape, and plant...
Hunting, Shooting, and Trapping
1973
This subseries, comprising one file only, includes an ms. diagram and notes on an animal trap seen at Stokesley, North Yorkshire, 27 October 1973, by Tony Green; David Cleveland's article on punt-gunn...
Village and Farm
1960-1973
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items on village and farm life, and related topics. This includes W. E. Tate's paper, 'Parish Records and the English Village Community', extracted f...
Sky and Weather; Natural Formations
1961-1975
This subseries contains items on weatherlore, natural formations in the landscape and ancient stone monuments.
Questionnaire Response Books
1950-1961
This subseries contains the original response books in which the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers recorded informants' responses to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. A response book exists f...
Student Folklore Dossiers
1971-1982
Student folklore dossiers, variously subtitled Scheme B - Folk Life 1: First Term Exercise, and Folk Life Exercise: First Term. Each compilation includes the student's biographical details, and items ...
Districts and Boundaries
1859-1869
This subseries contains items relating to the land divisions and boundaries connected with settlement and land use; and information pertinent to specific localities, for example placenames and their o...
Towns
1966
This subseries, comprising one file, contains a photocopy of Stewart Sanderson and Stuart Piggott's chapter on Edinburgh and its history and development, from the Edinburgh volume of 'The Third Statis...
Plants and Animals
1947-1981
This subseries contains items relating to aspects of plant and animal lore, including a study of Yorkshire plant names, a questionnaire on plant names in Norway, items on plantlore, cuttings from a pe...