Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 136 records

Total number of records: 136

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
nature136
manners and customs127
social life and customs122
occupations109
community life101
animals100
culture94
agriculture81
play69
food58

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)13
Horner, Mr M.12
Tammivaara, Irmeli12
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)8
Panheinen, Ossi7
Pasanen, Leena5
Barry, Michael V (1935-)4
Dunn, Ginette4
Wright, John T4
Kylstra, Henk E3

Archive Item

Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

29 November 1976

[Collector announcement]; Jacky Gallon, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about farm work; relations in the village; the Black Bull pub; previous Friday's quoits club social - singing and songs, rep...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

29 November 1976

[Collector announcement]; Sid Cornfirth [and family], recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about Mrs. Cornfirth playing quoits; Ugthorpe quoits teams and the game's popularity; singing, singers and son...

More details


Archive File

The Folklore of the Northumbrian Fishing Communities

Robson, Joanne

1967

A study of crab, lobster and salmon fishermen, and the communities in which they live, covering the length of the Northumberlandcoast. In collecting folklore of the area and the industry, the collecto...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Devon

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mrs. Reed [location not given] talks about the Mothers' Union; her husband's involvement with the local Church Council [Mr. Reed, recorded on tape LAVC/SRE/A699r]; the village fete; skittles; activiti...

More details


Archive File

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...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, Isle of Man

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

October 1958

[Collector announcement]; John Teare, recorded in Andreas; talks about the use of horses in farming; tractors and farm mechanisation; thatched roofs (houses) and the cost of maintenance; comments on l...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Berkshire

Baldwin, John R

1966-1969

Compilation of folk songs and conversation, selected from fieldwork recordings LAVC/SRE/A476r - A493r. The majority of the (male and female) singers were recorded in their own homes, singing unaccompa...

More details


Archive File

Plant Lore in England: 1600-1800

Drury, Susan

1984

M.Phil. thesis surveying the use of plants in material culture, as food, in calendar and social customs, in medicine, orthodox religion and the supernatural, in popular belief, divination, charms and ...

More details


Archive File

The Derbyshire Well Dressings

Bradbury, Kathleen Frances

1971

A study of the well dressing custom observed in a number of Derbyshire villages. The first of three chapters includes sections on the origins and history of well dressing, and well dressings in litera...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

2 April 1976

[Collector announcement]; Fred Lynley, recorded at home in Rosedale Abbey; talks about miners' cottages; changes in farming methods; peat digging and turf as fuel; local employment; cost of living; le...

More details


Archive File

Popular Belief in Leicester

Edge, Christine

1965

A study of the folklore of people living in Leicester, based on interviews with friends, acquaintances and other informants, including residents of a local Old Peoples' Home. The study contains six ch...

More details


Archive Sub-series

Questionnaire Response Books

1950-1961

This subseries contains the original response books in which the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers recorded informants' responses to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. A response book exists f...

More details