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West Country Folklore Pamphlets
1969-1975
This file contains pamphlets from the 'West Country Folklore Series', edited by Theo Brown. The pamphlets in this file relate to the folklore of Dorset and Devon, although the series covers all counti...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Neale, Brenda Ann
30 March 1976
[Collector announcement]; male and female [informants on tapes LAVC/SRE/A571r - A573r], recorded in the home of the female's parents in Leeds; discuss courtship/marriage; thoughts on women asking men ...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Cook, Catherine
[1970-1971]
George Metcalfe of Middlesmoor talks about Dead Mans Hill and the legend of a couple who robbed and murdered people on the pack trail, and buried them in the peat moorland where the bodies are preserv...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Neale, Brenda Ann
18 March 1976
[Collector announcement]; female, recorded in her parents' house in Leeds; talks about her engagement celebrations (who attended, clothes worn); earlier celebrations with friends; fiancé meeting info...
Leeds Teaching Notes
Brunk, Wille
[1966-1968]
This file contains papers created by Brunk for use in tutorials and lectures given to undergraduate students at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The papers contained within this...
Sound Recording, Staffordshire
Higgs, Judith
August 1972
Arthur Price and Mrs. Arthur Price, recorded in Stonnall, relate a supernatural anecdote, and discuss Shireoaks Club (Feast) and Wakes Week in Stonnall, the village fair and fox hunting.
St. Valentine's Day in Britain: The History of a Periodic Custom
Gendre, Pierre-Alain
1978
M.A. study based on literary and folkloristic data gathered between November 1977 and March 1978. A Historical Introduction is followed by chapters on origins, La Cour d'Amour and the literary traditi...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Cook, Catherine
November 1970
John Swales [JS], recorded in Merryfield Glen, sings I've got a father in the better land [first line]; Poor ?Jeffrey's gone to rest[first line], and other song fragments, including 'See Amid the Wint...
The Folklife of South Warwickshire: A Field Collection with Comparative Annotations and Commentary
Wharton, Colin S
1974
This Ph.D. thesis is divided into three parts. The first (Introduction) defines the word folklore, describes the purpose of the work and the method of approach. The second (The Folklore of South Warwi...
Marriage and Death Ceremonies in Derna, Eastern Libya
El-Darrat, Nasser
1975
Research study, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for a Master's degree in English Literature, which describes and analyses the customs associated with death and marriage in the town...
Some Aspects of the Oral Folk-Lore of Macclesfield and its District
Cliffe, David E
1968
A collection of 212 items of folklore, presented in two sections. The first records primary school children's games and rhymes, mostly drawn from the author's memory and representative of the years 19...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Cook, Catherine
[1970-1971]
Compilation of several field recordings. Male and female informants talk about practical jokes, local ministers and preachers, recite dialect poetry, coffins carried on sledges over snow, anecdotes co...