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Total number of records: 12

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture12
literature and folklore12
english language - dialects10
community life7
folk music6
folklore6
manners and customs6
oral traditions6
occupations5
social life and customs4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Read, John (1884-1963)2
Attebery, Louie W (1927-)1
Bonham-Carter, Victor1
Chamberlain, John S1
Clayman, Sarah1
Cook, Catherine1
Cross, Mrs1
Dunn, Ginette1
Fisher, Vivian1
Frear, Mr1

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Sound Recordings, Nigeria

Olayemi, Rufus V K

[1960s]

Adult male and child informants, recorded in Nigeria, singing/chanting Nigerian folk tales, with listeners'/audience responses and participation. Tales told in the Egba, Odeda, Egbado, Anago and Awori...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

[1970-1971]

Compilation of several field recordings. Male and female informants talk about practical jokes, local ministers and preachers, recite dialect poetry, coffins carried on sledges over snow, anecdotes co...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

20 January 1971

George Hancock recorded singing and in conversation at Sheephill Farm, in the Ringinglow area of Sheffield. Talk of previous [?October 1970] recording session, teaching songs to his grandson, hunting ...

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Sound Recordings, New Zealand

Dunn, Ginette

[1973]

Male informant [as for tapes LAVC/SRE/A659r - A662r], recorded in New Zealand; talks about a poem he has written for the collector, and translates a Maori leavetaking. [Tr. 1] Copy recording of a gr...

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Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire

Chamberlain, John S

July/August 1961

Herbert Sykes of Wetwang relates items of weatherlore - rainbows, moon (and associated rhymes), wind direction, horses' behaviour/crows' behaviour (nesting) as signs of weather; Mrs. Sykes relates say...

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Sound Recording, St. Andrews

Read, John (1884-1963)

December 1957

[Collector announcement]; Professor John Read, reading extracts from his book, 'Farmer's Joy' (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1949). The first is from chapter nineteen, The Camel Play Actors, in which he gives an...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Sofer, Zvi d (1980)

[1965-1966]

Various informants recorded at Donisthorpe Hall Old People's Home in Leeds, singing Jewish songs and relating Jewish folk tales. Reverend Knopf and his wife sing an unidentified song (with piano accom...

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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1964-1966

Unedited Field Master tape. Male sings [4 unidentified, one a fragment]. [Tr. 6] Female sings [2 unidentified]. [Tr. 7] Singers [?recorded in a pub]. Male sings 'Don't Go Down the Mine Dad' [par...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

[Mid-1960s]

Male, recorded in Filey in 1962 [date when this copy tape made not known]; recites the dialect poem, 'Runaway Wedding'; relates the mouse in beer vat folk tale; relates other stories (football team wi...

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Sound Recording, Cumbria

Attebery, Louie W (1927-)

April 1972

[Collector announcement]; Vivian Fisher, recorded at home in Keswick on the 28 April 1972; talks about local gentry; dialect; John Banks and William Penn; childhood memories of Keswick; Queen Mary and...

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Sheep, Geese, Bees and Dogs

1957-1973

This file contains items relating largely to the care and management of sheep, but also items on geese, bees and dogs. This includes a typed copy of a letter on sheepshearing in Cumberland, from 'Will...

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Sound Recording, Devon

Read, John (1884-1963)

8 July 1958

[John Read announcement]; John Read, recorded at the home of his friend, Victor Bonham-Carter, in East Anstey, giving his recollections of country life and the dialect in south-eastern Somerset. Talks...

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