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associations, institutions, etc7
community life7
culture6
manners and customs4
occupations4
education3
english language - dialects3
archive administration2
communication2
holidays2

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Barnes, John1
Bennett, Mrs1
Bennett, Ray1
Bridgement, Bertram1
Goddard, Mrs1
Green, Anthony E (1943-)1
Hart, William1
Herdman, Madge1
Holmes, Amy1
Houck, Charles L1

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General Information and Application Forms

Society for Folk Life Studies

[1967]

Leaflet outlining the aims and work of the Society for Folk Life Studies, including details of the principal contents of its journal 'Folk Life', volumes 1-4 (1963-1966); and an application form for m...

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Dialect recording in Humshaugh, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Lenihan, J M A

07 Jun 1939

[Side 1] Mrs. Thompson and Madge discuss recipe for 'girdle-cake' [= griddle-cake], recall mother's version cooked over open fire; Mrs. Hutchinson and Mrs. Goddard discuss Women's Institute, describe ...

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Folk Dance: General

[1971-1979]

This file contains a photocopy of the English Folk Dance and Song Society's leaflet number 15, 'Folk Dance Articles in the Journal of the English Folk Dance Society, Journal of the English Folk Dance ...

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Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick; Green, Anthony E (1943-)

16 November 1975

William Hart, recorded at home in Wilton by Tony Green [?daughter and son-in-law, Ray Bennett and Mrs. Ray Bennett, also present]. Sings 'Out in the Wild World'; talks about learning tunes from his fa...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1974

[Collector announcement]; Bertram Bridgement, recorded in Manea on the 3 July 1974; talks about farming and farm jobs pre-mechanisation; dyke/drain digging tools; job as a horseman; showing horses (Sh...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Houck, Charles L

[Mid 1960s-1970s]

Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of...

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University Archive

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1960-1980

This file contains original and copy correspondence, and related papers, concerning Stewart Sanderson's activities as an academic folklorist. Its contents seem to have been selected by Sanderson for d...

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