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Total number of records: 28

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
community life28
culture25
folk music24
english language - dialects19
associations, institutions, etc9
occupations9
education8
manners and customs7
play7
agriculture6

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette6
Baldwin, John R3
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)3
Sullivan, Keith Frederick3
Webb, Percy3
'Dusty'2
Bergal, Nancy Ann2
Curtin, John2
Dawes, George2
Baker, Mr1

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A Popular Singing Tradition of an Area of South-East London

Wetton, Anne Lindsey

1974

A collection of popular songs recorded in 1973/1974 from informants living in and around the Bexleyheath area of London. Text and (some) tune transcriptions are presented, with comments from the colle...

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Dialect recording in Stamfordham, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

05 Apr 1939

[Side 1] John Johnson talks about father farming at Black Heddon before being sacked for stopping squire crossing his land and moving to Shotley Bridge, father died when John was seven and John return...

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The Folk Songs of Bedfordshire

Webber, M R

1966

A study of songs collected from three adult informants living in Bedfordshire, and from children at a Luton Junior School.

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

2 October 1974

Basil Bennett, recorded at home in Snape; talks about learning songs whilst in the Army and the Navy - 'I'm in Love with Two Sweethearts' and 'Farewell My Own True Love'; his and other people's repert...

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The Passing of a Community and its Songs: A Study Based on the Unpublished Manuscript Collection of Songs from Adderbury, North Oxfordshire, made by Janet Heatley Blunt

Pickering, Michael J

1978

Ph.D. thesis concerned primarily with the social background to traditional English song, as found in the manuscript collection made by Miss Janet Blunt in Adderbury, North Oxfordshire. The Introductio...

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Pregnancy and Birth

1964-1976

This file contains items relating to pregnancy and birth customs, and includes a typed paper by Mrs. A. Pennie on baby lore and luck in love (1964), 5 leaves; a photocopy of Audrey Chamberlain's artic...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Haldenby, Cynthia

1958

George Codd, recorded in Barton-upon-Humber; talks about working on commercial freight river boats, the positions he has held and the pay he has received; captaining his own boat; sailing a keel boat;...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

8 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; Tommy Gallon, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about pub singing - starting, joining in, songs sung, time, landlord, changes and non-locals; learning songs; cycling to pub...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Bergal, Nancy Ann

18 January 1980

Recording made in the Grove Folk Club, Leeds, and featuring John Bastow [JB], John Curtin [JC] and Dave Robinson [DR]. JB sings 'The Holy Ground'; DR sings unidentified song; JB sings 'Rose of Mooncoi...

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The Traditional Cookery of a Yorkshire Housewife

Starkey, Helen

1977

A study of one Yorkshire woman's cooking and baking traditions, and her use of recipes and methods of cooking passed on to her from her mother and grandmother. The study begins with a brief section on...

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Some Aspects of Folk Life in Whitehaven

Graham, Jacqueline P

1980

A study of folk life in Whitehaven, based on information gathered from the collector's grandparents, visitors to their house and other family members, and covering roughly the seventy year period 1910...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Lewis, Cathy Laura

May 1973

The Irish singer, Darach Ó Catháin [DOC], recorded on 7 May 1973 in Leeds; talks about coming to Leeds in 1960; reference to Brendan Behan and Seán Ó Riada [SOR]; singing and first meeting with th...

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