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Social Intercourse
1967-1972
This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to drinking and inns/public houses. This includes James Stevens Curl's article on gin palaces and their disappearance, extracted ...
Social Questions
[1960s-1970s]
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items relating to labour and industrial unrest. This includes an ms. account, compiled from an original ms. source, of a Luddite attack on Cartwright...
Regional Social Histories
1969-1982
This subseries contains items relating largely to the social history of specific areas, including details of folk custom. Of the subseries' eight component parts, six are photocopies of original manus...
Musical Style and Social Context
Lomax, Alan (1915-2002)
[1959]
This file contains a photocopy of Alan Lomax's paper on the style of folk songs, from the 'American Anthropologist', volume 61 (1959), pp. 927-954. The paper compares folk cultures in the United State...
Song Structure and Social Structure
Lomax, Alan (1915-2002)
[1962]
This file contains two photocopies of Alan Lomax's paper on the importance of the study of folk music in its context, i.e. as a form of human behaviour, from 'Ethnology', volume I, number 4 (October 1...
Clogs. Their Social Aspects, with Particular Reference to Fighting and Dancing
Woolley, Hilary J
1976
A study comprising four chapters. The first presents the historical, functional and social context of wooden soled footwear, with sections on working clogs and dress clogs. Chapter Two considers the c...
Book VIII: Social Activities [Lowick Response Book]
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
25/Mar/1953 - 1/Apr/1953
Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to social activities.
Book VIII: Social Activities [Embleton Response Book]
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
18/Jan/1953 - 22/Jan/1953
Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to social activities.
Towards a Methodology of the Study of Folk-Life: With Special Reference to the Kosovo Epic Cycle in its Social and Historical Context
Martin, Allan
1970
M.A. study containing chapters on the development of folklore study and the problem posed by this development, the possibility of change in the present study of folklore and an approach to a case stud...
"Urban Negro Speech: Sociolinguistic Factors Affecting English Teachers"
Stewart, William A
[1965]
Typed paper intended for the 'Proceedings of the Conference on Urban Social Dialects and Language Learning' (National Council for Teachers of English, 1965). The paper discusses the difficulties of te...
Essex, Middlesex and London Responses: Book VIII
[1960s]
Collated responses from locations in Essex, Middlesex and London to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Questionnaire Book VIII: Social Activities.