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Total number of records: 20

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culture20
persons20
community life12
folklore12
play12
manners and customs11
english language - dialects9
occupations9
buildings8
folk music8

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Chamberlain, John S3
Kylstra, Henk E3
North, David J2
Orchard, Bill2
Smith, George2
Tyler, William (1893-1893)2
Wakelin, Martyn F2
William2
Wright, John T2
Blake, Mr William1
Sword Dance Team
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Sword Dance Team

[1968-1969]

Copy of a photograph taken around 1961, of the Goathland Plough Stots performing in uniform, Goathland (North Yorkshire). The team is made up of adult men, and is accompanied by Mr. J. Gibbin (who car...

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SED Word Map: Children
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SED Word Map: Children

Wakelin, Martyn F; North, David J

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question VIII.1.2, Children, mapping responses Children, Chilren, Childern, Chilern, Childer, Childers and Childs. The map is labelled as a draft.

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SED Word Map: Children
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SED Word Map: Children

Wakelin, Martyn F; North, David J

[1960s-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question VIII.1.2, Children, mapping responses Children, Chilren, Childern, Chilern, Childer, Childers, and Childs. The map was compiled by Martyn Wakelin and Dav...

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Children's Games and Rhymes

Kenworthy, Valerie D

1965

A collection of children's games and rhymes collected from boys and girls of the second form of Ossett Grammar School in West Yorkshire. The contributors were then resident in Ossett, Wakefield and Ho...

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Miscellaneous Correspondence

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1961-1976

Correspondence between Stewart Sanderson and various correspondents relating to dialect and folklife, covering the period January 1961-February 1963, November 1971, and June-August 1975. This includes...

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Children's Songs and Rhymes

1954-1979

This file comprises a copy of James Ritchie's 'The Singing Street: A Merry-Ma-Tanzie of Skipping, Hopping, Stotting, Hiding, Birling, Playing, and Dancing Rhymes', revised edition (Edinburgh: Albyn Pr...

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Papers on Folk Collections, Etc.

[1961-1982]

This file contains various leaflets, printed volumes and other items relating to places of historical/folk interest, and folk-related collections. This includes a general leaflet for Bunratty Folk Par...

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Children's Games, Rhymes and Songs

Helliwell, Annette

1964

A collection of children's games, rhymes and songs collected in five Manchester and Leeds schools. The collected items have been classified according to function - skipping, ball, action and team game...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Hampshire

Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E

1957-1961

[Announcement by Henk Kylstra]; Ernest Packer, recorded in Ashton Keynes in July 1957, by John Wright; talks about work with horses and waggon, on leaving school aged eleven; agricultural wages; ploug...

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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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Textiles

1960-1981

This file contains items on textile industries, including a photocopy of Arthur J. Saundry's article on the tucking mill, from an issue of 'Old Cornwall' (1960); a typed letter and notes, from Fred Br...

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Sound Recordings, Glamorgan and Monmouthshire

Parry, David (1937-); Kylstra, Henk E

1960-1961

[Collector announcement (Parry)]; Tom John, recorded in Pontlottyn [possibly in 1960]; talks about horse feed; straw rope; (Welsh) calls to cattle and horses; farm waggons/carts; ploughing and the qua...

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