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Total number of records: 395

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Archives394
Books and printed items1

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture389
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman5
Brotherton Collection1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
University Archive1

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culture395
community life376
education360
english language - dialects265
manners and customs121
occupations121
folk music91
agriculture78
social life and customs78
folklore75

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England30
Northumberland29
Embleton11
Lowick11
Italy2
Allendale1
Burgos1
County Westmeath1
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Ellington1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)78
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)29
Dunn, Ginette16
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)15
Wright, Peter15
Wright, John T13
Barry, Michael V (1935-)12
Sullivan, Keith Frederick10
Alexander8
Brunk, Wille8

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Archive File

Education - Miscellaneous

1970-1975

This file contains a photocopy of a typed paper listing details of oral history projects in Great Britain and Ireland, compiled by David Lance of the Imperial War Museum (December 1975), 17 pp.; and a...

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Educational System

[1960s-1970s]

This subseries contains items relating to education, predominantly in terms of ethnographic research and the dissemination of historical and ethnographic information. This includes details of oral his...

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A Folkloristic Approach to Traditional Educational Processes in Igbo

Oduah, Gabriel Ikechukwu

1981

M.A. dissertation on aspects of the folk life of the Igbo people living in south-eastern Nigeria. The study is divided into three sections, the first containing chapters on the Igbo people (their geog...

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Language Usage of Some Educated Anglophone Families in Yaounde

Ewota, Jemea I

1979

A study of the language usage of five educated anglophone families resident in Yaounde, submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Masters Degree in English, Department of English, Un...

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Popular Beliefs and Superstitions in Iboland

Uzokwe, Francis C

1979

This file contains a paper by Francis Uzokwe of the Ministry of Education, Owerri, Nigeria, on beliefs and superstitions in Imo State, Nigeria. The paper includes a list of 30 numbered beliefs.

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Personnel and Progress Report

Detroit Dialect Society

1966

This file contains a photocopy of a typed statement of personnel of the Detroit Dialect Society, Michigan State University (undated); and two copies of the Society's Progress Report, 1 April 1966, wri...

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Sound Recording, Nottingham

Holt, Rachel A

September 1971

Market pitcher recorded at Sneinton Market, Nottingham.

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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...

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"Gypsies and Travellers in Yorkshire"

Wyman, Melvyn

1980

M.A. study of Gypsy Traveller culture, and their material culture in particular, based on fieldwork carried out on camp sites in West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire, at the National Gypsy Education Cou...

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Sound Recording, Northumberland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

April 1961

[Announcement: probably recorded by Stanley Ellis in 1961 when he returned to check certain responses.]; Willie Pitt, retired farmworker and waggoner recorded in Embleton; talks about a recent shipwre...

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Mar, 2006, Stockholm, Vaxjo

Aug 2005 - Mar 2006

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture titled ‘Culture without borders’ at 'The new European Cultural Landscape and the Jewish Experience Congress'. Also, with referenc...

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Staithes

Day, Angela M

1967

A study of Staithes in North Yorkshire, in two sections. The first considers the community, and contains an introduction to the village and its history, and sections on the social pattern (dress, educ...

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