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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...
London : a social history
Porter, Roy (1946-2002); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1994
Includes bibliographical references and index. Formation to reformation -- Tudor London -- War, plague and fire -- The triumph of town: from Restoration to Regency -- Commercial city: 1650-1800 -- C...
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...
Brooks's : a social history
Ziegler, Philip; Seward, Desmond (1935-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1991
Essays contributed by members of the club.
Some Aspects of Oral, Social and Material Tradition in an Industrial Urban Area
McKelvie, Donald
1963
The nine chapters in this Ph.D. thesis describe an approach to collecting folklife material in the cities, towns and villages of West Yorkshire (including Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield), with cha...
Georgian England : a survey of social life, trades, industries & art from 1700-1820
Richardson, Sir A E (1880-1964); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
[1931]
"The genesis of this book was a series of lectures... delivered some little time since before the University of Bristol."--Preface.
Miscellaneous letters, mainly domestic and social, and papers of the Marshall family of Leeds and Coniston, 1830-1884
Marshall Family
1830-1844
Writers include Jane Marshall, Jane Dorothea Marshall, Mary Anne Marshall, Richard M. Milner, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Leslie Stephen, Mary de Vere and Thomas Woolner
The Pace-Egg Play in the Upper Calder Valley: Evidence Relating to a Folk Play Tradition, Illustrating its Features and Social Function from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. A Discussion of its Continuity
Swan, Nigel T
1975
M.A. research exercise examining the history and contemporary manifestations of the Pace Egg Play (a form of Mumming play), customarily performed each Easter in the towns and villages of the Calder Va...
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...
The Irish in Manchester
Dolan, Bernadette
1980
An introductory history of the Irish migrants to England, and in particular to Manchester, based on the collector's interviews with her father and one other Irish descendant living in the city.
A Folkloristic Approach to Traditional Educational Processes in Igbo
Oduah, Gabriel Ikechukwu
1981
M.A. dissertation on aspects of the folk life of the Igbo people living in south-eastern Nigeria. The study is divided into three sections, the first containing chapters on the Igbo people (their geog...