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Total number of records: 6

Top 10: Subject

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culture6
folk music6
english language - dialects4
manners and customs4
folklore3
supernatural3
nature2
occupations2
superstition2
agriculture1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Swales, John3
Calvert, Mrs2
Cook, Catherine2
Benison, Mr1
Broadhead, Bernard1
Clarke, Talman1
Cruickshank, Mr1
Daniel, Tom1
Duffield, Walter1
Evison, Charlie1

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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...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

November 1970

John Swales [JS], recorded in Merryfield Glen, sings I've got a father in the better land [first line]; Poor ?Jeffrey's gone to rest[first line], and other song fragments, including 'See Amid the Wint...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

2 December 1974

The Sheffield Ramblers and soloists singing carols and popular songs in the Robin Hood pub, Stannington, Sheffield, accompanied on the piano by Walter Duffield. Bernard Broadhead sings 'Song of the Sw...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Wharton, Colin S

1960-1961

Edited compilation of field recordings of songs sung by a number of informants at locations in North Yorkshire. The collector announces the name of the song and singer, where known, before each song. ...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

[1970-1971]

Male informants in conversation in a pub [?in Ramsgill, November 1970], talking about Dead Mans Hill; Yorke's Folly; the ghost of a monk at Bewerley Hall; the Yorke family. Male informants recorded ...

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Sound Recordings, Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

[1975]

Compilation of field recordings (copy extracts) made by Tony Green and others (including students of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies), and possibly used by him in a session, Interviewin...

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