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Total number of records: 23

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
human body23
persons23
culture22
community life19
folk music13
play13
folklore12
manners and customs9
games8
communities7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ashton, John5
Cooke, Jane A5
Dunn, Ginette2
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)2
British Association For the Advancement of Science1
Collins, J M Mrs1
Edge, Christine1
El-Darrat, Nasser1
Frith, Mrs1
Frith, Toni1

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Legends About People

1963-1979

This file contains items on legends relating to people, both legendary characters and real people. This includes photocopies of ms. papers by Trevor Lloyd Weedon on the Fianna Finn and the legend of F...

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The Media and the Traditions of Modern Children

Mitchell, Elspeth Anne

1981

An examination of Middle School children and their traditions, and the effect their exposure to modern mass media has on such traditions. The study is based on written responses to the collector's que...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ashton, John

[1974/1975]

Unidentified male singers singing in a Leeds pub [?the Regent], some unaccompanied, some accompanied by accordion or bodhran; also mouth music and instrumental on accordion, bodhran and whistle. Mal...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ashton, John

[1974/1975]

Irish folk music and song session in the Regent pub, Leeds, including performances by a number of unidentified people. Includes mouth music (lilting), instrumental music (accordion and bodhran), conve...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ashton, John

[1974/1975]

Irish folk music and song session in the Regent pub, Leeds, including unaccompanied and accompanied (accordion, fiddle) singing. Includes also mouth music, accordion tune and a lullaby. Male and femal...

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The Human Being

1969-1974

This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items relating to the human body. This includes a photocopy of a short article from 'The Guardian' on left-handedness (5 May 1974); and a mounted mag...

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An Investigation into the Play of Children Living in a Traditionally Working Class Area of Back-to-Back Housing Property, in Leeds, in May and June, 1962

Collins, J M Mrs; McKelvie, Donald

1962

A study of schoolchildren at play in Leeds, combining researches in education and folk life by two postgraduate students at the University of Leeds. Mrs. Collins was taking a Diploma in Curricular Stu...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ashton, John

[1974/1975]

Ceilidh/music session recorded [?in the Irish Centre/Regents pub] in Leeds- accordion, bodhran, whistle, flute and piano. Includes brief discussion with an unidentified male about Irish music (singing...

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Ethnographical Survey of the United Kingdom

British Association for the Advancement of Science

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains photocopies of items from the Reports of the 65th, 66th and 67th meetings of the British Association ( 1895-1897). The photocopies contain the 3rd, 4th and 5th reports of the Associ...

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Talismans, Magical Techniques, Charms, Etc.

1966-1979

The file contains an ms. letter from Evelyn Briggs on a superstition associated with seeing pigs on the way to the [horse] races (16 October 1972); Mary Corringham's article on talismans and their use...

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Dialect recording in Wall, Northumberland

Lenihan, J M A

Jun 1939

[Side 1] Memories of various pranks incl. putting hen down neighbour's chimney and friends taking blame, remember Margaret Henderson selling tobacco for halfpenny, anecdote about Ned Telfer persuading...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

15 July 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, sings 'Keep the Home Fires Burning', followed by comments on the song and recollections of his time spent in France during World War One; sings 'Long Trail A-Windi...

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