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Total number of records: 45

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community life45
culture32
occupations29
english language - dialects27
manners and customs23
agriculture21
food19
nature19
animals16
folk music16

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)7
Dunn, Ginette6
Webb, Percy5
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)4
Barry, Michael V (1935-)3
Johnson, Fred (1914-)3
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)3
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Pardon, Walter (1914-1996)3
Tammivaara, Irmeli3

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Survey of English Dialects Sound Recording Documentation and Transcriptions

1964-1973

This file contains documentation relating to sound recordings made for the Survey of English Dialects (SED), including informant records; and transcriptions of SED sound recordings. These include Mich...

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Dyed Egg
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Dyed Egg

Calvert, Valerie E

[1961-1962]

Decorated pasche egg dyed in onion skins, on a wooden board in a house in Workington (Cumbria).

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Ceremonial Dance Traditions in the South-West Pennines and Rossendale

Buckland, Theresa Jill

1984

Ph.D. thesis in five parts. Part One provides a discussion of theory and method, and information on the socio-historical background to the area in which fieldwork was carried out. Part Two covers danc...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Kniveton, Derbyshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

23 Aug 1952

[Side 1] John recounts various jobs he has done, incl. waggoner, farm worker, miner, foundry worker, enlisted 1914 and served at Ypres and Somme, then 28 years on farms incl. own smallholding and milk...

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A Study of Certain Marriage Customs

Barter, Loraine Susan

1975

A study of marriage customs, based on responses to a questionnaire compiled by the Societé Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore. This concentrates on wedding presents, including the dowry, and ...

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Changes in the Transmission of the Story of Pocahontas in England from 1625 to the Present Day

Traynor, Helena M

1978

A study comprising six chapters. The Introduction contains sections on the transmission of folktales, the story of Pocahontas, types of changes in the transmission of folktales and the format of the c...

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Sound Recording, Buckinghamshire

Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1967

Francis Hutt, recorded in Horton; talks about building and thatching corn stacks; clipping hedges; market gardening; milk round with pony - first job, aged eleven; carters' wages; ploughing and horse ...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Commonon the 31 October 1974 ; talks about making clay ovens [learned during World War One]; farm work; church choir; family; engagement; being gassed during W...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Oldroyd, Charles H

6 Sep 1976 - 9 Sep 1976

Fred Longthorne, of Greenhow Hill, talks about lead mining in Nidderdale, and Greenhow Hill in particular: tools, local mines, clothing, shoes, discovering Stump Cross Caverns; mining career in the 19...

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Sound Recording, Derbyshire

BBC

[1970-1979]

Local BBC Radio broadcast, entitled 'Owd Loscoe' [produced by ?Radio Nottingham, or ?Radio Derby]; [Announcement]; Billy Bellfield, recorded in Holbrook; talks about life at the end of the nineteenth ...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Northumberland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1950s]

Irvine Brooksbank, recorded in Thornton in May 1957; talks about the house in which he was born; working as a farm lad scaring birds; the farmer he worked for; local quarries and his father book keepi...

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Jokes, Rhymes and Language

1969-1979

This file includes a mounted newspaper article from the 'Yorkshire Post'(19 November 1979), on children's jokes and Sandra McCosh's fieldwork collecting jokes from schoolchildren in Leeds for her M.A....

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