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Total number of records: 10

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
persons10
culture6
occupations6
english language - dialects5
clothing and dress4
community life4
humor4
textile industry4
folk music3
handicraft3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)3
Outhwaite, T. G.3
Green, Anthony E (1943-)2
Cross, Miriam1
Daniel, Tom1
Ewing, Bill1
Hill, Bill1
Hudson, Mrs.1
Moorhouse, Vic1
Parson, John1

Archive File

Jokes, Anecdotes, Etc.

1979-1980

This file contains an ms. collection of jokes made by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) undergraduate student Kathryn Dearden at Christmas, 1979; and mounted newspaper cuttings from t...

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West Midlands Responses: Book VI, Part 13

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VI, Part 13. Includes questions VI.13.11 Drunk/Drunken - VI.13.20 Naked.

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Ropemaking: Winding Warp onto the Loom
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Ropemaking: Winding Warp onto the Loom

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1962

Ropemaker, Mr. T. G. Outhwaite , winding cotton warp onto the beam of a loom and threading it through the eals and reed, at his workshop in Hawes ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/P...

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Ropemaking: Winding Warp onto the Loom
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Ropemaking: Winding Warp onto the Loom

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1962

Ropemaker, Mr. T. G. Outhwaite , winding cotton warp onto the beam of a loom and threading it through the eals and reed, at his workshop in Hawes ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/P...

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Ropemaking: Winding Warp onto the Loom
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Ropemaking: Winding Warp onto the Loom

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1962

Ropemaker, Mr. T. G. Outhwaite , winding cotton warp onto the beam of a loom and threading it through the eals and reed, at his workshop, Hawes ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO...

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Sports and Athletic Games

1961-1974

This file contains items relating to sports and games of athletic ability, skill, strength and endurance. This includes a copy of 'The Ancient Haxey Hood Game (An Ancestor of Football?)', by J. W. ff....

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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1964-1966

Unedited Field Master tape. Male sings [4 unidentified, one a fragment]. [Tr. 6] Female sings [2 unidentified]. [Tr. 7] Singers [?recorded in a pub]. Male sings 'Don't Go Down the Mine Dad' [par...

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Sound Recordings, Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

[1975]

Compilation of field recordings (copy extracts) made by Tony Green and others (including students of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies), and possibly used by him in a session, Interviewin...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

Miriam Cross, recorded at home in Prickwillow on 10 June 1974; talks about her childhood home in the village; parents (farmers); baking using a brick oven; jam making; pig killing; describes the Fen r...

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Sound Recordings, Lancashire

Taylor, Monica

[1970-1972]

Female informant [possibly the collector's mother], recorded in Haslingden ; talks about and recites a poem with the first line, At number one Bolton yard; sings 'Where oh where is my Norah?' [first l...

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