Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 22 records

Total number of records: 22

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
nature22
weather22
community life21
occupations18
agriculture16
manners and customs16
culture15
play14
food13
transportation10

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Tammivaara, Irmeli8
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Wharton, Colin S3
Bury, Jack2
Cross, Miriam2
Gimbert, Claude2
Hard, May2
Powell, Herbert Thomas2
Russell, Ian2
Sutton, Mrs E2

Archive File

Popular Belief in Leicester

Edge, Christine

1965

A study of the folklore of people living in Leicester, based on interviews with friends, acquaintances and other informants, including residents of a local Old Peoples' Home. The study contains six ch...

More details


Archive File

Basket, Straw and Rope-Work

1960-1973

This file includes a photocopy of typed notes made by Rodney Cousins on basket-making, collected from H. Summers, basketmaker, Sutton-on-Trent (November 1969) and from Herbert Lloyd Johnes' 'The Baske...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

29 March 1963

Thomas Stephens, recorded at home in Altarnun; answers a selection of questions, put by Martyn Wakelin, from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey questionnaire; talks with Stanley Ellis about his first job;...

More details


Archive File

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',...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Claude Gimbert, recorded in Sutton on the 21 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A675r]; talks about bell ringing techniques, types of bells, learning to ring, methods, c...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Siporin, Rae Lee

[1965-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Nottinghamshire locations 9Nt1-4, and Lincolnshire 10L1-3. The original recordings were made in 1952, 1956, 1957 and 1965. T...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, Ayrshire

Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy

December 1973

James McCrindle, recorded at home in Ayr, talks about his career as a fisherman; the type of fish caught; fishing grounds; starting in 1923; describes a fishing boat, sailing as a schoolboy, the crew,...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

23 Apr 1970 - 30 Apr 1970

Frank Hinchliffe and Grace Walton recorded singing and talking at home in the Lodge Moor area of Sheffield. Discussion includes reference to a local legend, and the Sheffield Flood. Second recording c...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, England

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1950s/1960s]

Compilation of extracts from field recordings made as part of the Survey of English Dialects. These extracts were copied from gramophone disc recordings, with announcements by Stanley Ellis . A spea...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, Warwickshire

Wharton, Colin S

1968

[Collector announcement]; Mrs. E. Sutton, recorded in Aston Cantlow[conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A262r]; talks about a blackthorn winter; weatherlore; cures for warts (broad b...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

1971-1973

Ken White in conversation in his home in Sheffield , 24 October 1971. Talk of family and childhood, and four songs. [Tr. 1] Albert Broadhead and Bernard Broadhead recorded in one of their homes, in ...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, Cumbria

Attebery, Louie W (1927-)

April 1972

[Collector announcement]; Vivian Fisher, recorded at home in Keswick on the 28 April 1972; talks about local gentry; dialect; John Banks and William Penn; childhood memories of Keswick; Queen Mary and...

More details