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Total number of records: 36

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives30
Books and printed items6

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture14
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive13
Leeds Russian Archive2
Brotherton Collection1
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1
Quaker Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
education36
community life14
culture12
associations, institutions, etc5
english language - dialects5
examinations5
manners and customs5
folk music4
folklore4
literature and folklore4

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PlaceCount
Durham, United Kingdom4
Leeds, United Kingdom4
Cambridge, United Kingdom1
Cheltenham, United Kingdom1
London, United Kingdom1
Oxford, United Kingdom1
West Bretton, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
National Education Association of the United States2
Agar, Jack1
Attebery, Louie W (1927-)1
Cheichel, Edna1
Faulb, Carol1
Fisher, Vivian1
Great Britain. Committee On Classics In the Education System of the United Kingdom1
Hershey, Charlie Brown (1878-)1
Higginson, James Henry1
Johnson, Ian1

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From 18002
From 190034

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Up to 199934
Up to latest1

Archive Item

Sound Recording, [United States]

Wilson, David L

8 March 1972

Peter Trigillis and Carol Faulb, recorded by themselves for David Wilson, talking about American university and college campus folklore: campus services; black students; co-ed. fraternity/sorority - U...

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Archive Print Item

The common and free schools of the United States of America

Tuke, James H (1819-1896)

1846

Smith II, 831.

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American higher education : the public school system in the United States (two addresses)

Hershey, Charlie Brown (1878-)

1931

Delivered during October and November, 1930.

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Archive File

Unbound printed pamphlet "Technical education and scientific research with special reference to the needs of the leather industries."

No date, ca. 1917

"An Address delivered [...] to the Members of the United Tanners' Federation at the Leathersellers' Hall, July 17th, 1917" [No imprint] Item 332 in Pickering 12 pp.

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Archive Sub-series

Miscellaneous Collections of Folklore

1951-1985

This subseries contains typed and printed items relating to folklife activities and research, both in the United Kingdom, and in Europe and the United States. It includes printed ephemera and guides t...

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"Urban Negro Speech: Sociolinguistic Factors Affecting English Teachers"

Stewart, William A

[1965]

Typed paper intended for the 'Proceedings of the Conference on Urban Social Dialects and Language Learning' (National Council for Teachers of English, 1965). The paper discusses the difficulties of te...

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Archive File

Tape List of Contents

Cheichel, Edna

1970

3 typed copies of a report on the recordings taken at Donisthorpe. 6 copies of a table of contents for the recordings, with names and topics. Also included is the original folders used to hold the pap...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Pegg, Bob

17 July 1977

Methodist Sunday School Anniversary service, recorded in Marsh, near Haworth and Oxenhope (West Yorkshire). The Preacher (retired), Reverend Ian Johnson, introduces proceedings; the congregation sings...

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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...

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