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holidays11
manners and customs11
culture10
rites and ceremonies8
community life7
english language - dialects7
folk music7
education5
entertainment events5
food5

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Tammivaara, Irmeli2
Barnes, John1
Barwell, Carol A1
Barwell, Kenneth1
Barwell, Mary1
Bridgement, Bertram1
Buckland, Theresa Jill1
Dawson, Mary1
Ellington, Thomas1
England, Alan1

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A Diachronic Study of Aspects of the Celebration of Passover in England. 1920s and 1980s Compared

Niman, Jonathan L

1983

A study of the Jewish festival of Passover in England, comparing recollections and experiences recorded during interviews with residents of a Jewish Old People's Home in Manchester (in 1982), and gath...

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Sound Recordings,

Barwell, Carol A

27 December 1978

[Collector announcement: informant, date]; Kenneth Barwell [collector's father] talks about family Christmases in the 1960s and mid 1970s; meaning of Christmas; cards, Christmas trees. [Tr. 8]

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Sound Recording, Greater Manchester

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

[Collector announcement]; Wilf Morgan, butcher, recorded in Mossley [interview starts mid conversation]; talks about his experiences as a butcher; boning a piece of beef and cuts of beef; meat prices ...

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Sound Recordings, [Cambridgeshire]

Lyons, Margaret

Dec 1978

[Collector announcement]; collector's grandmother [ recorded in Cambridgeshire]; offers childhood recollections of Christmas in the 1910s/1920s - presents, food and drink, supper, singsongs, games (ch...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire

Russell, Ian

25 October 1970 - 28 October 1970

Jack Kay recorded in his home in Marsh Lane, talking about Norfolk Market in Sheffield and copies of song books (Rogers) seen on a stall there; reference to a Whitsuntide hymn sheet; informant's invol...

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The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance

Buckland, Theresa Jill

1976

A study of the Horn Dance of Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire, performed traditionally once a year in September. The custom was witnessed by the collector in 1974 and 1975, and further fieldwork undert...

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Sound Recording, Cheshire

England, Alan

12 December 1970

William England, recorded at home in Northwich; recollects his involvement in the Cheshire [? Comberbach] soul-caking tradition; talks about soul-caking during World War One and the proceeds going tow...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Pattison, Susan

1975

Wilf Isherwood [David Goulburn also present], recorded in January 1975 at home in Antrobus, talks about soul-caking and how Antrobus acquired the horse's head - taken from the Hatton gang in 1920, fol...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire

Massarella, Mr

[1960s]

Unidentified female informant, recorded in Charlesworth [by male collector, from Canterbury]; talks about cotton mills and rope works in the area; changes in the village, including new housing and tra...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1974

[Collector announcement]; Bertram Bridgement, recorded in Manea on the 3 July 1974; talks about farming and farm jobs pre-mechanisation; dyke/drain digging tools; job as a horseman; showing horses (Sh...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1974

[Collector announcement]; Mary Dawson, recorded in Doddington on the 8 July 1974; recollects her childhood in Doddington; marriage; children; skating matches; changes to the village; trandling for bir...

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