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Total number of records: 15

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archive administration15
community life14
culture11
education7
communication6
english language - dialects5
associations, institutions, etc4
folk music4
persons4
folklore3

Top 10: People and organisations

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Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)5
Berntsen, Howard N1
British Association For the Advancement of Science1
Drury, Susan1
Mcdavid, Raven Ioor (1911-1984)1
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)1
Raw, Frank1
Raw, Mrs1
Strevens, Peter1
Sullivan, Keith Frederick1

Archive File

A Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations in Folk Life Studies in the University of Leeds, 1961-1970

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1971

Stewart Sanderson's published guide to theses and dissertations in folklife produced by students at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). It forms no. 1 of the IDFLS Occasional Paper...

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Language Papers

Strevens, Peter

1961-1966

This file contains a typed draft version of a paper for a Festschrift for Daniel Jones, 'Phonetics, Applied Linguistics, and Other Components of Language-Teaching' (1961), 15 leaves; a typed working d...

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Tristan da Cunha

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1961-1962

Typed original and copy correspondence from Stewart Sanderson and other scholars relating to proposals for research into traditional culture on Tristan da Cunha (November 1961-February 1962). This als...

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Report and Annual Meetings

British Association for the Advancement of Science

1961-1967

This file contains a copy of the British Association's Annual Report for 1961-1962; programmes for the British Association's Annual Meetings in Manchester (1962), Aberdeen (1963) and Cambridge (1965);...

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Studies in the Linguistic Geography of Essex

Berntsen, Howard N

1962

M.A. thesis comprising three volumes. Volume One contains six chapters, the first being a description of the Essex sounds recorded in 1958, 1959 and 1961. Chapters Two to Six treat the development of ...

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IDFLS Lists of Theses etc. - Correspondence

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-); Drury, Susan

1971-1987

The letters in this file comprise enquiries regarding the purchase of Stewart Sanderson's 'Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations in Folk Life Studies in the University of Leeds 1961-1970', and request...

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Philological Society

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1946-1961

The Philological Society was a supporter of Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth's early dialect survey work, including their construction of a questionnaire for use in gathering data. Orton and Dieth present...

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Archivist File

[1975-1980]

This file contains a photocopy of the first supplementary list of folk life dissertations held in the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies, covering the period 1971-1975 (i.e. supplementary to S...

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Papers on Resources for Folklife Research

1971-1979

This file contains catalogues and lists detailing folk-related items held at various institutions. It includes the International Association of Sound Archives'Directory of Member Archives' (London: IA...

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Children's Songs and Rhymes

1954-1979

This file comprises a copy of James Ritchie's 'The Singing Street: A Merry-Ma-Tanzie of Skipping, Hopping, Stotting, Hiding, Birling, Playing, and Dancing Rhymes', revised edition (Edinburgh: Albyn Pr...

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Arnolds

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1961-1975

File of typed correspondence between Stewart Sanderson and various at E. J. Arnold and Son Limited, relating to the Survey of English Dialects (SED) publication programme and proposals for folklife pu...

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Papers on Folk Collections, Etc.

[1961-1982]

This file contains various leaflets, printed volumes and other items relating to places of historical/folk interest, and folk-related collections. This includes a general leaflet for Bunratty Folk Par...

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