Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 49 records

Total number of records: 49

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture49
home49
manners and customs39
folklore34
community life33
occupations30
social life and customs25
holidays20
literature and folklore19
nature19

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Crook, Rosemary5
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Green, Anthony E (1943-)3
Harris, Susan3
Pattison, Susan3
Gledhill, James2
Goulburn, David2
Peters, Adrian2
Whitfield, Jean2
Aldcroft, Linda1

Archive File

Questionnaire No.2, 1962 Correspondence (Extracted) Weatherlore

Whitfield, Jean

1962-1963

Individual responses to Jean Whitfield's request for help with her gardening folklore questionnaire, published in the journal 'Popular Gardening' and the newspapers the Yorkshire Evening Post and Newc...

More details


Archive File

Conventional Expressions

1964-1979

This file contains a photocopy of Irene Teoh Brosnahan's paper, 'The Haptics of the English Handshake', from 'IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching', volume XVII, numb...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

26 October 1973

Frank Weatherill, recorded at home in Danby; sings an unidentified song about farmers' lads; relates anecdotes/stories regarding a dog and a hare, dialect, friends reunited, father quarrying and workm...

More details


Archive File

The Kellet Manuscript

Kellet, G R

[1970s]

The first file contains a photocopy of a manuscript by G. R. Kellet, being a memoir of growing up in Hunslet, Leeds, in the 1920s and 1930s. Although biographical, the manuscript includes descriptions...

More details


Archive Item

Survey of English Dialects recording in Easingwold, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

15 Apr 1955

[Side 1] John tells anecdote about two brothers working on buildings at Ampleforth College who found buried 'pankin' [= earthenware pot] of spade-guineas, shared plunder and lived off 'brass' for year...

More details


Archive File

Traditional Threats

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1970-1972

This file contains items relating to Tony Green's research into traditional threats to children. The fieldwork is based on the responses of first and second year pupils from Roundhay School in Leeds, ...

More details


Archive File

Traditional Methods of Threatening/Frightening Children

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1970

This file contains a paper on traditional threats, using information collected by Tony Green from groups of first- and second-year pupils at Roundhay School, Leeds, in March 1970. The pupils were aske...

More details


Archive Sub-series

Towns

1968-1979

This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to aspects of towns and town life. This includes Stella Margetson's article on Victorian pantomime, focussing on London theatres,...

More details


Archive File

Traditional Threats Review

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1981

This file contains a mounted photocopy of Stewart Sanderson's review of John Widdowson's 'If You Don't Be Good: Verbal Social Control in Newfoundland' (St. John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland,...

More details


Archive File

Gardening Questionnaire Correspondence

Whitfield, Jean

1962-1963

Letters sent to Jean Whitfield from newspapers, journals and magazine editors regarding her research, and from individuals responding to her requests for help posted through these channels. This relat...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Pattison, Susan

[1975]

Adrian Peters, recorded at home in Marston, talks about his 7-8 year involvement with the Antrobus Soul-Cakers - link with wife's family and parts played [ David Goulburn contributes occasionally]; ag...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Pattison, Susan

[1975]

Copy of David Goulburn and Adrian Peters interviews, from tape LAVC/SRE/A307r.

More details