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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Sound Recording, St. Andrews
Read, John (1884-1963)
December 1957
[Collector announcement]; Professor John Read, reading extracts from his book, 'Farmer's Joy' (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1949). The first is from chapter nineteen, The Camel Play Actors, in which he gives an...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
25 June 1974
Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], talks about his family; experience of World War One, war injuries, hospitalisation in Cambridge and Sidcup, writing poetry, fellow patients, inc...
Folk Dance: General
[1971-1979]
This file contains a photocopy of the English Folk Dance and Song Society's leaflet number 15, 'Folk Dance Articles in the Journal of the English Folk Dance Society, Journal of the English Folk Dance ...
Museums
1966-1973
This file contains items relating to museums and related institutions, including Bryce Nelson's article on S. Dillon Ripley's plans for recreating a slum at the Smithsonian Institution, extracted from...
Sound Recording, London
Schrut, Judith Lynne
7 January 1977
[Collector announcement]; Joe Benjamin, recorded in his home in Dalston; gives biographical details, talks about his parents' occupations (both immigrants from Lithuania), his siblings (and cousins) l...