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culture9
english language - dialects9
persons9
folk music7
manners and customs5
community life4
literature and folklore4
folk dancing3
folk drama3
holidays3

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Baldwin, John R4
Cook, R. G.2
Green, A.2
Miller, T. J.2
Whiting, Bill (1891-1891)2
Agg, Albert1
Brown, I. M.1
Cotmore, Mrs1
Dore, Bill1
Dunn, Ginette1

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Popular Belief: Miscellaneous

1968-1981

This file contains a photocopy of Miss Wilelmine M. E. Fowler's paper on Yorkshire folklore, from 'Memorials of Old Yorkshire', ed. by T. M. Fallow (London: George Allen, 1909), pp. 286-305; a copy of...

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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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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

September 1974

Ruby Ling, recorded at home in Snape on the 6 September 1974; sings 'The Volunteer Organist', 'I'm the Man You Don't Meet Every Day', 'If I Were a Blackbird'; talks about singing at home; sings 'Happi...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1969

Mr. T. Newman, recorded at home in Clanfield. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A488r. Sings 'My Old 'at That I Got On', learned from a song sheet, and 'Needle Cases'[ fragment]; rec...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire

Baldwin, John R

1967-1969

Bill Whiting, recorded at home in Longcot in 1967; sings 'Rosemary Lane', 'The Little Thatched Cottage', 'The Knife in the Window', 'The Old Dog', 'He's gone where the good ponies go' [fragment], 'The...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1968-1969

Session recorded at Swindon Folksingers' Club in 1968 [?possibly a regional English Folk Dance and Song Society- organised Christmas event]; accordion tune; unidentified male sings [? 'Can You Dance t...

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Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1966-1969

Nancy Thornton, recorded at home in Fairford, sings 'I've Travelled Many a Mile'. [Tr. 3] Albert Agg, recorded at home in Siddington, sings 'Buttercup Joe', 'The Old Sow', 'A Bunch of Green Holly an...

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Dialect and Linguistic Pamphlets

1940-1974

This file contains 19 dialect- and linguistics-related pamphlets, offprints and reprints, deposited in the Dialect File. Many include inscriptions from the author to Harold Orton. Includes: - Der La...

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Folk Song: General

1959-1981

This file contains typed song texts for 'Ah'm an O'wd Age Penshoner' (provenance unknown); a photocopy of the text and tune for 'Charley of Armor', collected from Captain Shields by Geoff Wood, from a...

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