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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture17
Brotherton Collection2
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folklore21
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Chamberlain, John S3
Committee On Ulster Folklife and Traditions2
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum2
Ulster Folk Museum2
Ulster Folklife Society2
Bedford, Thomas Henry Booth (1898-1961)1
Bull, Mrs. Walter1
Bull, Walter1
Croot, Mrs Oscar1
Croot, Oscar1

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Ulster folklife (v.29 (1979))

Committee on Ulster Folklife and Traditions; Ulster Folklife Society; Ulster Folk and Transport Museum; Ulster Folk Museum

Vols. for 1955-60 published by the Committee on Ulster Folklife and Traditions; 1961-64 by the Ulster Folklife Society; 1965- by the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum (called 1958- Ulster Folk Museum) ...

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Ulster folklife

Committee on Ulster Folklife and Traditions; Ulster Folklife Society; Ulster Folk and Transport Museum; Ulster Folk Museum

v.25 (1979) Vols. for 1955-60 published by the Committee on Ulster Folklife and Traditions; 1961-64 by the Ulster Folklife Society; 1965- by the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum (called 1958- Ulste...

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Children's Games and Rhymes

Kenworthy, Valerie D

1965

A collection of children's games and rhymes collected from boys and girls of the second form of Ossett Grammar School in West Yorkshire. The contributors were then resident in Ossett, Wakefield and Ho...

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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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Miscellaneous Correspondence

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1961-1976

Correspondence between Stewart Sanderson and various correspondents relating to dialect and folklife, covering the period January 1961-February 1963, November 1971, and June-August 1975. This includes...

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H

1960-1961

Oscar Croot and Mrs. Oscar Croot, recorded in Riseley in 1960; Mr. Croot describes making leaded windows - transporting and fitting, geographical area covered, costs and estimates of work; describes t...

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Sky and Weather

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains items relating to weatherlore, including an ms. paper compiled by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivist Margaret Jackson, containing weatherlore, with bibliog...

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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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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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Children's Games, Rhymes and Songs

Helliwell, Annette

1964

A collection of children's games, rhymes and songs collected in five Manchester and Leeds schools. The collected items have been classified according to function - skipping, ball, action and team game...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Hampshire

Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E

1957-1961

[Announcement by Henk Kylstra]; Ernest Packer, recorded in Ashton Keynes in July 1957, by John Wright; talks about work with horses and waggon, on leaving school aged eleven; agricultural wages; ploug...

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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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