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The Kellet Manuscript
Kellet, G R
[1970s]
The first file contains a photocopy of a manuscript by G. R. Kellet, being a memoir of growing up in Hunslet, Leeds, in the 1920s and 1930s. Although biographical, the manuscript includes descriptions...
Jokes, Rhymes and Language
1969-1979
This file includes a mounted newspaper article from the 'Yorkshire Post'(19 November 1979), on children's jokes and Sandra McCosh's fieldwork collecting jokes from schoolchildren in Leeds for her M.A....
The Black Country Dialect: A Collection of Words, Phrases, and Stories
Starkey, H J
1953
This file comprises an ms. notebook containing a collection of words, phrases and dialect texts of the Black Country (i.e. South Staffordshire, North Worcestershire and North West Warwickshire), compi...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Thomson, Sydney
15 November 1972
Children of Armley Park School in Leeds talk about children's reading and writing; where they live; tell jokes (including English/Irish/Scottish and rude); collector tells a joke; children discuss the...
Playground Jingles
Hawkes, A D
1973
This file contains photocopies of a series of four articles from the 'Bradford Telegraph and Argus', written by A. D. Hawkes in May 1973. The articles focus on the playground jingles, i.e. chants and ...
Games with Special Equipment
1968-1979
This file contains items relating to games played by children using special equipment, such as a ball or skipping rope. The file includes a photocopy of Bernard A. Barton's article, 'Let's Laik at Sum...
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...
Games and Pastimes
1969-1976
This file comprises four photographic prints of historic European playing cards, accompanied by a photocopy of a typed key to the plates; a photocopy of Frank Weatherill's typed and ms. notes on the g...
Games Without Special Equipment
1959-1973
This file contains items relating to games played by children which require no special equipment. This includes an ms. letter from Doris Hepworth to Tony Green on the game 'Old Roger is Dead', accompa...
Stanley Ellis: An Appreciation
[1982]
A collection of articles and essays, on sheets of duplicating paper with carbon beneath, written by colleagues to mark Stanley Ellis's retirement from the School of English. This includes an introduct...
Some Aspects of Oral, Social and Material Tradition in an Industrial Urban Area
McKelvie, Donald
1963
The nine chapters in this Ph.D. thesis describe an approach to collecting folklife material in the cities, towns and villages of West Yorkshire (including Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield), with cha...
Folklore Correspondence
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
1980-1982
This file contains correspondence between Tony Green and various correspondents concerning a variety of folk customs and beliefs. The file includes correspondence accompanying an article extracted fro...