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Total number of records: 8

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture8
persons8
folk music6
english language - dialects4
community life3
folklore3
humor3
oral traditions3
play3
entertainment events2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Baldwin, John R1
Bergal, Nancy Ann1
Blagrove, David (1937-1937)1
Carr, Susan1
Cooke, Jane A1
Curtin, John1
Jeffares, Mrs1
Jordan, Mrs1
Pelham-Jones, Herbert1
Shaw, Carol1

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French Folk Dance Group

Jeffares, Mrs

1975

Group of French folk dancers from Meynes (Provence), performers of La Farandole, a traditional dance of Provence and Languedoc. The dance group are made up of children of various ages, dressed in whit...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Cooke, Jane A

[1979]

Mrs. Jordan, recorded in Birdsedge, talks about her childhood games, played in Crawley, West Sussex. Describes ball games, 'Battle of Waterloo', French skipping (elastics), counting-out rhymes; song; ...

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Sound Recording, London

Wetton, Anne Lindsey

1974

Susan Carr [studying French at the University of Leeds], recorded in Abbey Wood on the 30 January 1974; sings and discusses a parody of the song 'Don't Go Down the Mine Dad', 'Don't Jump Off the Roof ...

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Verse: General

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains a typed copy of Edward K. Miller's paper, 'Local Chauvinism and Life-Experience Transfiguration in British Monologues', with photocopied notes and appendices, 19, [7] leaves. The ap...

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Sound Recordings, North East Lincolnshire

Whitney, Norman F

[1964]

Schoolchildren from Grimsby [interviewed by an unidentified woman, ?in a house rather than at school] describe singing/ring games, and give examples; also, describe chasing games, nursery rhymes (sung...

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Sound Recording, [Location Unknown]

Shaw, Carol

[1973/1974]

Herbert Pelham-Jones talks about joke-telling: the jokes he tells, why, when and where; reference to the Jokers' Club and Hampshire Club; gives examples of stories, inc. tongue twisters (crude); jokes...

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Sound Recording, Berkshire

Baldwin, John R

1967

Dave Blagrove, recorded in Reading; sings [with ?banjo/?ukulele accompaniment] 'Sandy Lane', the Oxford boatmen's songs 'The Ballad of Tom Beechey' and 'Les Morton's Navy'; 'Maggie May', 'Farmer's Boy...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Bergal, Nancy Ann

13 December 1979

John Curtin, recorded in his home in the Armley area of Leeds. Biographical details; interest in Scottish Country Dance bands; accordion, guitar playing as a teenager; distinction made between traditi...

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