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Total number of records: 12

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
community life12
crime12
culture12
literature and folklore12
folklore6
manners and customs6
oral traditions6
war6
occupations5
associations, institutions, etc4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bond, Francis Keith3
Leeming, Chris2
Pearce, Ben2
Sacksfield, Jack2
Agar, Jack1
Bickerstaffe, Mary1
Bickerstaffe, Robert1
Bond, Kathy1
Farrell, Bernard T.1
Glover, Henry1

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Aspects of English Witchcraft

Hagger, C S L

1964

M.A. dissertation (Department of English Literature) on witchcraft in England and New England, focussing on what people have felt, said, written or done about it. In doing this a summary is given of t...

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The Concept of the Outlaw

Ingham, Julianne A

1981

A dissertation which traces the development of popular traditions concerning the outlaw in literature. The literature chosen is mainly from the Medieval English period. A short comparison with two lat...

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Legends About People

1963-1979

This file contains items on legends relating to people, both legendary characters and real people. This includes photocopies of ms. papers by Trevor Lloyd Weedon on the Fianna Finn and the legend of F...

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Sound Recordings, Liverpool

Bond, Francis Keith

1973-1974

Interviews with Henry Glover of Melling [Tr. 4], and the grandparents of the collector, Mary Bickerstaffe and Robert Bickerstaffe [Tr. 5], resident in the Page Moss area of Liverpool. All discuss thei...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

17 March 1981

Interviews with four men regarding their experiences as Royal Air Force air gunners during World War Two. The interviews were recorded in the studio of Leeds University Television Service in Leeds. ...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

1981

[Collector announcement]; Jack Agar, recorded in the Territorial Army's Churchill Barracks in Leeds, on the 17 February 1981; gives biographical details; talks about the outbreak of World War Two; joi...

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The People of the City of Liverpool and their Second World War

Bond, Francis Keith

1974

A dissertation comprising the recollections of people living in Liverpool during World War Two, based on tape-recorded conversations with fifteen informants.

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Punishment

1964-1975

This file contains items relating to criminal justice and punishment, and includes Derek Exley's article on the Halifax Gibbet, a crude form of guillotine, extracted from 'The Ridings' (Autumn 1964), ...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Kathy Bond [collector's mother] relates her recollections of living in the Huyton area of Liverpool during World War Two - air raids, prisoners-of-war, transit camps, VJ Day celebrations, rationing, m...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

February 1981

[Collector announcement]; Jack Sacksfield, recorded at home in the Alwoodley area of Leeds on the 3 February 1981; gives biographical details; talks about his first job; joining the Royal Air Force - ...

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Crime

[1972-1983]

This file contains items on criminal activities, including highway robbery and coining. This includes an ms note from Ivor Clissold to Tony Green describing a custom undertaken on leaving prison, coll...

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Parish and Church

[1965-1975]

This subseries, comprising a single file only, includes Werner Kissling's ms. notes on the Foresters' Walk in Coverdale (connected with the Ancient Order of Foresters) and its byelaws; Margaret Ottley...

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