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Total number of records: 31

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
communication31
community life31
culture31
literature and folklore23
manners and customs16
occupations15
folklore14
english language - dialects13
nature13
animals10

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)3
Baldwin, John R1
Couldwell, Jack1
Dyson, Mina1
Flannery, Martin1
Gifford, Terry1
James, Clifford1
Mcdavid, Raven Ioor (1911-1984)1
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)1
Russell, Ian1

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From 18002
From 190029

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Oral History: Associations, Workshops, Conferences

1969-1977

Leaflet on oral history and the Regional Oral History Office at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; printed review of the Oral History Micropublication Plan at the Butler Library...

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Trams, Railways and Boats

1967-1973

This file contains items on forms of travel, including James Edward Holroyd's article on tramcars, extracted from 'Country Life' (7 December 1967), p. 1490; an ms. postcard from Jeremy Godwin to Stewa...

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Raven McDavid Articles

McDavid, Raven Ioor (1911-1984)

[1960-1981]

Originally housed in a single folder labelled Complete Set of Xeroxes of Raven McDavid's Articles, these files contain photocopies of printed, typed and draft articles and papers by McDavid, mainly re...

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Folktales: Miscellaneous 2

[1970-1973]

This file contains items relating to folklore and folktale, including folktales from Sub-Saharan Africa. This includes a photocopy of an ms. paper by Lindi Shembi Williams of the University of Botswan...

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Fairy Cross Plain

Weatherill, Frank (1892-1974)

1967-1973

This file contains items relating to Frank Weatherill's telling of the story of Fairy Cross Plain, North Yorkshire. This includes his ms. account of the story of Fairy Cross Plain, written from memory...

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Folk Medicine: Miscellaneous

1962-1973

This file contains items relating to medicine and beliefs, including an ms. letter and typed anecdote from Mr. S. J. Tyrell of Rugby (Warwickshire), on the belief that reciting Bible text can stem ble...

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Stonework

1969-1979

This file contains items relating to stone industries and related crafts, including a photocopy of the Appendix to Horace Harman's 'Buckinghamshire Dialect' (reprinted Wakefield: S. R. Publishers, 197...

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Miscellaneous Folklore Papers

1964-1979

Pamphlet by Charles Phythian-Adams, 'Local History and Folklore: A New Framework' ([London]: Standing Conference for Local History, 1975), 39 pp.; reprint from the 'Journal of the Folklore Institute',...

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Historical Events

1969-1975

This file contains Theo Brown's pamphlet, 'Trojans in the West Country' (St. Peter Port: Toucan Press, 1970), 16 pp.; L. V. Grinsell's pamphlet on the folklore of Stanton Drew (St. Peter Port: Toucan ...

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Courtship and Marriage; Death and Funerals

1962-1980

This file contains items on marriage customs, death and funeral customs and beliefs, and ghosts. This includes ms. and typed correspondence between R. W. Crosland and Tony Green on the custom of biddi...

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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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Papers on Folk Collections, Etc.

1836-1985

The bulk of items in this file are dated 1959-1985. The file contains leaflets, printed volumes and other items mostly concerning folk-related museums and collections. It includes Frank Atkinson's pri...

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