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Total number of records: 29

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Archives28
Books and printed items1

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture28
Brotherton Collection1
Herbert Read Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
nature29
animals21
culture21
community life20
occupations19
english language - dialects13
agriculture12
food12
manners and customs11
play9

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)10
Wakelin, Martyn F5
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Jacques, Oswald2
Lobb, Francis James2
Lobb, Mrs.2
Mckelvie, Donald2
North, David J2
Stevenson, Bill2
Willey, William Henry2

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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....

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The interpenetration of man and nature

Coburn, Kathleen

1963

From the Proceedings of the British Academy, vol.49.

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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...

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SED Word Map: Donkey
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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...

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SED Word Map: Charlock
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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...

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SED Word Map: Dovecote
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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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-...

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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...

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