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Total number of records: 68

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture68
folk music68
english language - dialects53
community life44
occupations34
play32
agriculture28
manners and customs24
sports23
entertainment events17

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sullivan, Keith Frederick68
Wilkinson, Jim10
Simpson, Thomas9
Hart, William7
Wilkinson, Mrs7
Gallon, Luke5
Hayes, Raymond (1909-2000)5
Bennett, Mrs4
Bennett, Ray4
Ellerby, George4

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Popular Singing Traditions and Cultural Change in the Old North Riding of Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

1978

Ph.D. divided into five parts, twelve chapters. Following the Introduction, which gives an overview of folksong scholarship and tradition, the thesis contains chapters on the village of Ugthorpe where...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

February 1975

[Collector announcement]; recording made at Whitby Folk Club, Whitby; male announcer informs audience of KS's presence and his tape recording the session; male sings [? 'Beneath the Bonnie Hawthorn'],...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

7 February 1975

[Collector announcement]; George Ellerby, recorded at The Eskdale pub in Castleton; sings 'Muckspreader' [to 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough'], and two unidentified songs. Juke box music aud...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

2 April 1975

[Collector announcement]; George Ellerby, recorded outside his home, Forest Lodge Farm, in Castleton; talks about the songs he knows, and the problems of writing them down in Yorkshire dialect; his so...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

6 January 1977

[Collector announcement]; George Ellerby, recorded outside his home, Forest Lodge Farm, in Castleton; talks about the songs he sang on previous recording sessions; copyright in songs; making (amateur)...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

17 March 1977

George Ellerby, recorded outside his home, Forest Lodge Farm, in Castleton; talks about the collector's research and his moving to Whitby; GE's schooling in Castleton, including singing; comments on h...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 February 1975

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings [unidentified]; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife'; talks about and sings his version of 'My Grandfather's Clock...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

18 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife', and 'My Grandfather's Clock' [parody]; singing in pubs as a teenager; sings [unide...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

18 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary'; talks about personal changes in employment after World War Two, and his move away from f...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

19 March 1976

Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', [first line: 'When I was a jolly young ploughboy'], 'Farmer's Boy' and [first line: 'Come with me to t...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 December 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about his song repertoire; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife'; recitation about two Yorkshire lads in London; re...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 December 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about his singing; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', and talks about the subject of the song (ploughman'...

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