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Total number of records: 326

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Archives324
Objects1
Books and printed items1

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture325
Brotherton Collection1
Herbert Read Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
community life326
manners and customs270
culture258
social life and customs257
occupations162
english language - dialects122
education116
folk music111
food106
holidays104

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England12
Northumberland11
Embleton2
Lowick2
Allendale1
Earsdon1
Ellington1
Haltwhistle1
Hedden-On-The-Wall1
Herefordshire1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)24
Sullivan, Keith Frederick17
Dunn, Ginette14
Tammivaara, Irmeli12
Pickering, Michael J9
Panheinen, Ossi7
Wilson, David L7
Calvert, Valerie E6
Maduakor, Robert Obiatuegwu6
Crook, Rosemary5

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From 18001
From 1900325

Archive Sub-series

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 ...

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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...

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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...

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Archive File

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...

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Archive File

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...

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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...

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Lowick Response Book - 1Nb1
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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.

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Embleton Response Book - 1Nb2
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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.

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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...

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"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...

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Archive File

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.

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