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Total number of records: 25

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Archives23
Books and printed items2

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture23
Leeds Russian Archive2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
holidays25
manners and customs24
culture22
archive administration19
community life19
english language - dialects15
rites and ceremonies14
social life and customs14
folk music11
occupations11

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Great Britain1
Russia (Federation)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Calvert, Valerie E2
Green, Anthony E (1943-)2
Vickers, Emma2
Barrett, Frank1
Bateson, Margaret1
Bogatyrev, Petr (1893-1971)1
Bradbury, Kathleen Frances1
Broadhead, Albert1
Broadhead, Bernard1
Carrington, Walter (1896-)1

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V Velikobritanii prin︠i︡ato tak : ob angliĭskikh obycha︠i︡akh

Khimunina, T N; Uolsh, I A; Konon, N V

1975

Cover and spine title: Customs, traditions and festivals of Great Britain.

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Folk Song: General

1959-1981

This file contains typed song texts for 'Ah'm an O'wd Age Penshoner' (provenance unknown); a photocopy of the text and tune for 'Charley of Armor', collected from Captain Shields by Geoff Wood, from a...

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The Derbyshire Well Dressings

Bradbury, Kathleen Frances

1971

A study of the well dressing custom observed in a number of Derbyshire villages. The first of three chapters includes sections on the origins and history of well dressing, and well dressings in litera...

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Sound Recordings, Lancashire

Calvert, Valerie E; Vickers, Emma

April 1961

Emma Vickers of Burscough talks about Burscough Fair; fortune telling with tea leaves and playing cards; good/bad luck - wedding cake, bouquets; Halloween parties at home - games; New Year traditions ...

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Sound Recordings, Liverpool, Manchester and Preston

Calvert, Valerie E

April 1961

Peggy Meek describes egg customs - conkering, displaying decorated eggs, egg rolling on Easter Monday, ingredients for decorating eggs [informant is Secretary of the Cumberland and Westmorland Benevol...

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Selected Writings of Petr Bogatyrev

Bogatyrev, Petr (1893-1971); Miller, Stephen

1984

This file contains a master duplicator copy of part of 'Peter Bogatyrev (1893-1971): Selected Writings in Folkloristics (1931-1939)', edited by Stephen Miller. It forms no. 6 of the Leeds Folklore Gro...

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Leeds Greek Community: Preservation and Transmission of the Greek Traditional Culture

Nitsiakos, Vassilis

1982

M.A. dissertation on the preservation and transmission of Greek traditional culture in Leeds. The dissertation is in three sections: The Field, Fieldwork, The Immigrants: What Happens to their Heritag...

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The Living Dialect of Walsden, Lancashire

Leach, Elaine

1969

A study of the dialect spoken in Walsden, West Yorkshire (in Lancashire when the study was undertaken), based on data collected from three local informants during 1968 and early 1969. An introductio...

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A Survey of Annual Bonfires in England 1900-1910

Molloy-Morley, Carolyn

1967

A report outlining the findings of a survey undertaken collaboratively between the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies at Leeds, and the Department of English at University College, London . Th...

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Annual Festivals: General

1962-1972

This file contains Mats Rehnberg's pamphlet on holidays and annual festivals in Sweden (Stockholm: Svenska Institutet, 1964), [24] pp.; a photocopy of the guide to the Stone Collection at Birmingham R...

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The Phonology of the Dialect of Bubwith in the East Riding of Yorkshire

Langrick, Annie E

1948

A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Bubwith, East Yorkshire. An introduction to the village and the area is followed by six chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of ...

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