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Coracle Fishermen
[1970s]
Two coracle fishermen demonstrating how to row and fish with coracles on the River Towy at Carmarthen. The fishermen are pulling in a net, watched by a crowd possibly attending a folk life conference....
The interpenetration of man and nature
Coburn, Kathleen
1963
From the Proceedings of the British Academy, vol.49.
From Toponomastic Geography: The Original Territory of Albanian Settlements in Messenia (Peloponnesus, Greece) on the Basis of Toponymy
Georgacas, Demetrius J
[1960s]
This file contains a copy of a typed research paper on the evidence for the settlement of Albanians in Messenia, Greece, in the late Middle Ages, based on the evidence of placenames. The author aims t...
SED Word Map: Donkey
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); North, David J
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed word map of the Northern Counties for SED question III.13.16, Donkey, mapping the limits of responses Cuddy, Donkey and Fussock, and including the response Moke. Responses Ass, Bu...
SED Word Map: Charlock
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); North, David J
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed word map of the Northern Counties, for SED question II.2.6, Charlock (i.e. field mustard and related weeds), mapping the distribution of responses Brazzock, Kale, Katlock, Ketlock...
SED Word Map: Dovecote
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid 1960s-mid 1970s]
Experimental word map of the Northern Counties, for SED question I.1.7, Dovecote, showing the distribution of responses (Dove)-cote, (Dove)-ducket, (Dove)-hole, (Dove)-hull and (Dove)-loft. The map wa...
Folklore Survey (Goathland)
Green, R J
1963
A fieldwork notebook containing items of folklore collected during July 1963 in Goathland, North Yorkshire, from sixteen informants. For each informant, a name and address are given, and the item coll...
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...
Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F
March 1963
[Collector announcement]; John Galsworthy, recorded at home in Gwinear on the 28 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; talks o...
Sound Recordings, Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1963
Bill Stevenson, recorded in Carleton on the 1 February 1963; talks about his upbringing in Carleton; his father; pig keeping and killing for Christmas; diet; local school; Mischief Night and pranks de...
Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F
March 1963
[Collector announcement]; Francis Lobb, recorded in St Ewe on the 29 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; discussion of left-...
Sound Recordings, Devon and Cornwall
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F
March 1963
[Stanley Ellis announcement]; Samuel Snell, recorded on his farm in Swimbridge; talks about the bad winter of 1962/1963; farming sheep and beef bullocks; Devon Closewool [sheep breed]; discuss sheep f...