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food111
manners and customs111
social life and customs111
community life97
culture85
occupations74
holidays67
nature52
agriculture50
english language - dialects45

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)9
Tammivaara, Irmeli8
Dunn, Ginette7
Calvert, Valerie E6
Crook, Rosemary5
Panheinen, Ossi5
Pasanen, Leena4
Shaw, David H4
Sullivan, Keith Frederick4
Wright, John T4

Archive Object Item

Decorated Egg

[1960s]

A hard-boiled, decorated egg, coloured with a food-based(?) red/pink dye. The shell is patterned with stencils made from small fern leaves and wild flowers.

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Dyed Egg
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Dyed Egg

Calvert, Valerie E

[1961-1962]

Pasche egg decorated to resemble a figure wearing a crinoline, on a wooden board in a house in Workington (Cumbria).

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Sound Recording, [Location Unknown]

Bell, Brigid M

24 December 1978

[Collector announcement]; collector's family recorded in conversation whilst eating Christmas Eve supper; discussion covers the food served, Prince Charles' potential bride, Monaco royal family; Luxem...

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Decorated Egg
Archive Item

Decorated Egg

Calvert, Valerie E

[1961-1962]

Pasche egg decorated with a miniature painting of Friar's Crag (Cumbria), on a wooden board in a house in Workington .

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Innovation and Change in the Celebration of Christmas in the Ukrainian Community of Lower Hurst

Drinkwater, Jane Margaret

1976

A study of a community of Ukrainian immigrants living in the Lower Hurst area of Greater Manchester, near Ashton-under-Lyne, with particular reference to customs and beliefs associated with their cele...

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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Eames, Bronwen A

[1979]

Two performances of the Uttoxeter Feather Guizers' Christmas Mumming Play, recorded in two pubs in Uttoxeter. [The recording level on both is very low, and there is much background noise from people i...

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Archive Sub-sub-series

Easter Egg Survey

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-); Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1962-1963

This sub-subseries includes typed and photocopied questionnaires and covering letters, and ms. and typed responses, to the Folk Life Survey questionnaire on Easter Egg traditions. The survey appears t...

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Dyed Egg
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Dyed Egg

Calvert, Valerie E

[1961-1962]

Decorated pasche egg dyed in onion skins, on a wooden board in a house in Workington (Cumbria).

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Archive File

Christmas Traditions: Student Survey, 1978-1979

1978-1979

This file contains papers produced by students for the undergraduate degree in Folk Life Studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The papers are the result of a survey exerci...

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Christmas Traditions: Student Survey, 1979-1980

1979-1980

This file contains papers produced by students for the undergraduate degree in Folk Life Studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The papers are the result of a survey exerci...

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Sound Recordings, Somerset

Mitchell, Sarah L G

1978-1979

[Collector announcement: informant collector's mother]; E. M. Mitchell, of Bath, talks about present-day Christmas traditions - shopping, cards, present buying, house decorations; Christmas Eve tradit...

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Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

24 Sep 1956

[Side 1] Sam and Jack tell series of anecdotes about local characters, recall bets and dares, memories of pranks on bonfire night, cost of alcohol in past. [Side 2] Sam and Jack recall warm ale and fo...

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