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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...