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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture215
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community life215
culture176
archive administration147
education131
english language - dialects122
communication68
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manners and customs37
agriculture35
folk music35

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)32
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)23
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)16
Wright, Peter11
Barry, Michael V (1935-)9
Sullivan, Keith Frederick7
University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies7
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)6
Wright, John T6
Nixon, Graham5

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Archive File

University Archive

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1960-1980

This file contains original and copy correspondence, and related papers, concerning Stewart Sanderson's activities as an academic folklorist. Its contents seem to have been selected by Sanderson for d...

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Ulster Dialect Archive Bulletin

Ulster Folk Museum. Dialect Archive

1965

This file contains issues 1 and 2 of the 'Ulster Dialect Archive Bulletin' (January and April 1965). The bulletins are accompanied by a typed letter from G. B. Adams to Harold Orton, and a leaflet and...

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Lists from the Archive of Folk Song

Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)

1971-1974

This file contains lists produced by and for, and information about, the Archive of Folk Song at the Music Division of the Library of Congress. The file includes two versions of the paper, 'The Archiv...

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Notes on Gramophonic Recording of Yorkshire Dialects

Bruff, Harold J L

1926

Copy of a typed paper delivered to the Yorkshire Dialect Society, and subsequently issued in a limited edition of 50 copies. The paper outlines a proposal for the construction of a sound archive of Yo...

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Folklife Survey - Lund

[Institute for Folk Life Studies, Lund]

1968-1969

Photocopies of student (typescript) dissertations and seminar papers deposited in the Folklivsarkivet i Lund[Lund Folklife Archive], covering a wide range of Swedish folklore and folklife topics [Swed...

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North American Folklore and Folk Music Serial Publications

Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)

1973

Typed list of North American serial publications on folklore and folk music, compiled by Joseph C. Hickerson of the Archive of Folk Song, Library of Congress. The list includes publication titles and ...

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Archive Series

Archivists' Correspondence and Related Papers

1962-1992

This series contains correspondence between successive Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivists and non-University of Leeds students and academics, publishers, museums and local m...

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Papers on Resources for Folklife Research

1971-1979

This file contains catalogues and lists detailing folk-related items held at various institutions. It includes the International Association of Sound Archives'Directory of Member Archives' (London: IA...

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Loans Register

1977-1983

This small binder originally had the label Loans Register. For the use of Mr. Tony Green only sellotaped to its front [part has come away and is now held inside the binder]. It contains typed forms be...

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Om Avlyssning och Utskrivning av Dialekttexter i Fonogram: Några Erfarenheter och Problem

Hedblom, Folke (1908-)

1966

This file contains a typed paper by Folke Hedblom in Swedish, on listening to and transcribing dialect samples from phonographic sound recordings, [31] leaves. This includes sections on potential prob...

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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 ...

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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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