Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 26 records

Total number of records: 26

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
community life26
manners and customs26
public buildings26
social life and customs26
culture20
food17
folk music14
occupations14
buildings13
english language - dialects13

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette4
Tammivaara, Irmeli3
Cooke, Jane A2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Pickering, Michael J2
Sullivan, Keith Frederick2
Bell, Brigid M1
Bell, Mary1
Bell, Robert1
Bell, Sheila1

Archive Item

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...

More details


Archive File

The Role of the Public House in an Urban Environment

Hargreaves, Janet

1979

A study which examines the importance of public house visiting as a major leisure time activity, the pub as the centre of a community, and the customs and attitudes associated with the pub within an a...

More details

Hall with Piano
Archive Item

Hall with Piano

[1970s]

Piano in a village hall at an unidentified location.

More details and larger image

Village Hall Stage
Archive Item

Village Hall Stage

[1970s]

The stage in a village or church hall at an unidentified location. A piano sits on the stage at the left hand side.

More details and larger image


Archive Sub-series

Social Intercourse

1967-1972

This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to drinking and inns/public houses. This includes James Stevens Curl's article on gin palaces and their disappearance, extracted ...

More details

Couple Reading
Archive Item

Couple Reading

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating to the early-20th century, of a man and woman sitting on wooden chairs in a dwelling house at an unidentified location. The woman has her back to the camera and is reading ...

More details and larger image


Archive File

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...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, [Location Unknown]

Bell, Brigid M

28 December 1978

[Collector announcement: interviews with collector's parents and paternal grandmother]; Mary Bell talks about Christmas as a child in Ireland - food, no alcohol; Christmas as mother of collector's fat...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

25 March 1978

Fanny Hitchman, recorded in Adderbury; sings two songs. The first is a May song, the second is titled 'Dame Crump'. [Tr. 1] Male informant, recorded at home, remembers inhabitants of Adderbury; waln...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

8 February 1976

[Collector announcement]; William Hart, recorded at home in Wilton; sings [ 'Mary Ann Malone']; talks about his song repertoire; sings 'The Day I Left Old Ireland', 'Patsy Fagan' and 'Where Did You Ge...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

2 November 1974

Geoff Ling, recorded at home in Blaxhall; sings 'The Green Bushes', learned from his grandfather, Aaron Ling; singers in the Ling family; Harvest Frolics; the Ship Inn, singing and the segregation of ...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H

1955-1956

Harry Scott [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A746r], recorded in Billington; sings 'I Wish I was Single Again'; talks about Fred Henley. [Tr. 1] Fred Henley and his wife, Mrs. Fred Henley, recorded in ...

More details