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Total number of records: 50

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
buildings50
human settlements50
manners and customs49
social life and customs49
community life45
culture39
english language - dialects26
occupations26
folk music24
play22

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Pickering, Michael J8
Dunn, Ginette7
Sullivan, Keith Frederick6
Green, Anthony E (1943-)3
Baldwin, John R2
Bennett, George2
Hales, Phil2
Hart, William2
Richardson, Wicketts2
Tammivaara, Irmeli2

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

27 November 1976

[Collector announcement]; Phil Hales, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about singing at the Quoits Supper; song repertoire; audience; barn dances and songs; musicals; learning songs; favourite song...

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The Effect of Tourism on a Highland Culture: A Study of Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan

Fisher, Nora M M

1976

A dissertation comprising five chapters. The first presents a brief history and description of the village of Kilchoan on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. The second describes the old culture of the villag...

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Staithes

Day, Angela M

1967

A study of Staithes in North Yorkshire, in two sections. The first considers the community, and contains an introduction to the village and its history, and sections on the social pattern (dress, educ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

27 November 1976

[Collector announcement]; Phil Hales, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about the village of Ugthorpe, and acceptance of him as an outsider; Ugthorpe youth club, and attitude towards young people in...

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Fifty Years of Wragby Life

Sutton, Diane

1980

A dissertation which looks at life in the Lincolnshire village of Wragby during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. The information it presents is based on the memories and printed ephemer...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

28 November 1976

[Collector announcement]; Walt Spensley, Mrs. Spensley and their son Colin Spensley, recorded in their home in Ugthorpe; talk about playing quoits; the Quoits Supper; young quoit players; the singing ...

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Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1969

George Dawes [Dusty Dawes], recorded at home in Meysey Hampton; discusses the chorus to the songs 'Treat My Daughter Kindly' and 'Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups Do Grow'; talks about [?step/?...

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Hall with Piano
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Hall with Piano

[1970s]

Piano in a village hall at an unidentified location.

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Village Hall Stage
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Village Hall Stage

[1970s]

The stage in a village or church hall at an unidentified location. A piano sits on the stage at the left hand side.

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Your Village

Walton, James

1939

This volume contains articles written by James Walton for the 'Your Village' series of articles published in the 'Halifax Courier and Guardian' (March-June 1939). The series consists of historical acc...

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Higgs, Judith

July 1972

Miss Speirs, recorded in Stonnall, talks about the local area (principally buildings and rights of way). Reference to Lichfield and Shenstone, local legends and customs and beliefs.

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The Decline of the Pit Village: A Study of Burradon, Northumberland

Thompson, Elizabeth Jane

1975

A study of one pit village, Burradon, in Northumberland, its colliery and community. Sections describe working life underground, attitudes to pit life, the role of the pitman's wife, community spirit ...

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