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Some Aspects of Oral, Social and Material Tradition in an Industrial Urban Area
McKelvie, Donald
1963
The nine chapters in this Ph.D. thesis describe an approach to collecting folklife material in the cities, towns and villages of West Yorkshire (including Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield), with cha...
Plant Lore in England: 1600-1800
Drury, Susan
1984
M.Phil. thesis surveying the use of plants in material culture, as food, in calendar and social customs, in medicine, orthodox religion and the supernatural, in popular belief, divination, charms and ...
Student Folklore Dossiers
1971-1982
Student folklore dossiers, variously subtitled Scheme B - Folk Life 1: First Term Exercise, and Folk Life Exercise: First Term. Each compilation includes the student's biographical details, and items ...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
12 September 1974
Horace White, recorded at home in Spexhall; talks about the village pub; the Suffolk feudal system; World War One; working life, including fishing in Fraserburgh (Aberdeenshire), local council in Suff...
Folklore of Worsley: A Miscellaneous Collection of Tradition and Belief From the Area of Worsley, Salford Metropolitan District
Skinner, Margaret
1975
A study of the folklore of Worsley people, based on oral and printed sources. Interviews were conducted with older residents, and children at a Primary School in Walkden. The study contains a sectio...
Sound Recordings, Somerset
Palmer, Kingsley
1968-1969
This tape contains what are possibly edited copies of the collector's original Somerset field recordings, with his announcements inserted. Ruth Tongue recites wassail verses, spoken on Christmas Eve...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Starkey, Helen
28 Sep 1976 - 29 Sep 1979
Foodways: informants [ Gladys Parker and her husband], recorded in Brighouse, talk about beer/wine making; Sowerby Bridge Dock Pudding; Christmas food - preparation, ingredients for Christmas meal; Ea...
Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire and Derbyshire
Russell, Ian
12 July 1973 - Sep 1976
Charles Green in conversation at home in Dungworth, near Sheffield, July 1973. Talks of his favourite songs, and discusses his repertoire; traditional remedies; working life, wages and lifestyle; meth...
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...
Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Wright, John T
24 November 1958
[Collector announcement]; William Rickards, recorded in Egloshayle; talks about farmwork on leaving school; wages; quarry work after World War One; working with his father in his flour mill, and then ...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Morris, Patricia M
October 1981
Dorothy Ibbotson, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; sings 'The Warrior's Little Boy' (learned from her grandmother), and talks about her attempts to trace the song's origins; gives biog...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
1975
Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common on the 27 June 1975; sings 'The Boy Truly Regrets'; [gap]; 'I Wonder Who's Kissing You Now (Because I Love You)'; [ 'Fiddler's Green']; 'Flanagan's Band...