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Report and Annual Meetings
British Association for the Advancement of Science
1961-1967
This file contains a copy of the British Association's Annual Report for 1961-1962; programmes for the British Association's Annual Meetings in Manchester (1962), Aberdeen (1963) and Cambridge (1965);...
Standing Conference for Local History Papers
Standing Conference for Local History
1971
Announcement and programme for the Techniques in Tape Recording day school organised by the Standing Conference for Local History, annotated and corrected in ms. The programme features two papers to b...
Miscellaneous Collections of Folklore
1951-1985
This subseries contains typed and printed items relating to folklife activities and research, both in the United Kingdom, and in Europe and the United States. It includes printed ephemera and guides t...
Philological Society
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1946-1961
The Philological Society was a supporter of Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth's early dialect survey work, including their construction of a questionnaire for use in gathering data. Orton and Dieth present...
Lists from the Archive of Folk Song
Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)
1971-1974
This file contains lists produced by and for, and information about, the Archive of Folk Song at the Music Division of the Library of Congress. The file includes two versions of the paper, 'The Archiv...
Fieldwork and Research
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1893-1974
The diffuse nature of the subject content of this subseries highlights Harold Orton's broad-ranging interest in language, language research and folk life, including in particular, phonetics ( Yorkshir...
Traditional Drama Conference Papers
1978
This file contains copies of papers delivered at the Traditional Drama one-day conference on aspects of current scholarship in traditional British plays, at the University of Sheffield, 21 October 197...
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 ...
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...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
1974
Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Commonon the 31 October 1974 ; talks about making clay ovens [learned during World War One]; farm work; church choir; family; engagement; being gassed during W...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
2 April 1976
Frank Raw, recorded at home in Danby with his wife, talks about the village; the decline of the young population and job opportunities in the Yorkshire Dales; changes in farming methods (mechanisation...
Horses, Cattle and Draft Animals
1960-1973
This file contains items on livestock, in particular cattle and horses. The focus is largely on the general care and management of cattle and horses, folklore relating to their care, medicine, dialect...