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Total number of records: 17

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communication17
community life17
culture15
literature and folklore9
education7
manners and customs7
nature7
occupations7
archive administration5
animals4

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Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)5
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2
Taylor, Alfred1

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Society for Folk Life Studies 1963 Conference Arrangements

1962-1963

The Society for Folk Life Studies held its Third Annual Conference at the University of Leeds' Bodington Hall [of Residence], in 1963. This file contains typed correspondence between the conference or...

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Animal Sports: Correspondence

1963-1964

This file contains a typed letter [?from Stewart Sanderson] to Mrs. E. Fieldhouse acknowledging her sending audiotapes on cock-fighting to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) (5 Jun...

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Yorkshire Abbeys

Taylor, Alfred

1963

This file contains articles from Alfred Taylor's 'Bygone Abbeys of Yorkshire'/ 'Abbeys and Priories of Yorkshire'/ 'Bygone Abbeys and Priories of Yorkshire' series, published in and extracted from the...

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Nailmaking, Blacksmiths, Steel, Etc.

1963-1974

This file includes a typed transcript of an interview between Fred Hobbis and E. John Penny on nailmaking in Northfield, Birmingham (June 1963); Evelyn Leonard's article on Tom Merrill and hand-forgin...

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Miscellaneous Correspondence

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1961-1976

Correspondence between Stewart Sanderson and various correspondents relating to dialect and folklife, covering the period January 1961-February 1963, November 1971, and June-August 1975. This includes...

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Plant Lore

1961-1980

This file includes an ms. letter from Gillian Bulmer to Stewart Sanderson on names of apples (12 November 1975); a photocopy of Grace Pleasant Wellborn's paper on plantlore in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'T...

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Annual Festivals: General

1962-1972

This file contains Mats Rehnberg's pamphlet on holidays and annual festivals in Sweden (Stockholm: Svenska Institutet, 1964), [24] pp.; a photocopy of the guide to the Stone Collection at Birmingham R...

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Fairies, Folklore, and Supernatural Animals

1963-1978

This file contains items relating to fairies, folklore and supernatural animals. This includes a photocopy of the introduction to an article on Robert Kirk's 'The Secret Common-wealth', from the 'Scot...

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Folklife Research in the Jewish Community

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1963-1974

This file includes copies of Stewart Sanderson's 'Proposals for Folk Life Research Amongst the Jewish Community in Leeds', (February 1963); correspondence with Dr. Zvi Sofer of the University of Gött...

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Spring and Summer Festivals

1963-1981

This file includes a colour section from the West Yorkshire Road Car Company calendar for 1963 on well-dressing in Tissington, Derbyshire, on Ascension Day; a section of a colour poster on the May Day...

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SED - Sound Recordings

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1963-1981

Although separated into two physical file folders, these files were originally held as two folders within a single filing-cabinet file. The first file was originally labelled E. J. Arnold, and consist...

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Anglo-Swedish Scheme

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1968-1969

This file consists of original and copy correspondence, and related papers, concerning a postgraduate course in Swedish folk museums devised by Stewart Sanderson and Ingemar Liman. It includes ms. and...

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