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culture9
oral traditions9
community life7
literature and folklore7
english language - dialects6
folklore6
manners and customs6
communication5
folk music5
animals3

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Calvert, Mrs1
Cook, Catherine1
Greenwood, Harry1
Hancock, George1
Longthorne, Fred1
Rispin, George1
Russell, Ian1
Swales, John1

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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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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

20 January 1971

George Hancock recorded singing and in conversation at Sheephill Farm, in the Ringinglow area of Sheffield. Talk of previous [?October 1970] recording session, teaching songs to his grandson, hunting ...

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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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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

[1970-1971]

Male informants in conversation in a pub [?in Ramsgill, November 1970], talking about Dead Mans Hill; Yorke's Folly; the ghost of a monk at Bewerley Hall; the Yorke family. Male informants recorded ...

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Long Narrative Verse

[1968-1970]

This file contains four offprinted papers by Michael Cherniss on epic poems, being 'The Progress of the Hoard in Beowulf', offprinted from the 'Philological Quarterly', volume XLVII, number 4 (October...

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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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Conventional Expressions

1964-1979

This file contains a photocopy of Irene Teoh Brosnahan's paper, 'The Haptics of the English Handshake', from 'IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching', volume XVII, numb...

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The Greenwood Manuscript

Greenwood, Harry

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of a manuscript compiled by Harry Greenwood of Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, being memoirs of local life and traditions prior to World War Two. The manuscript appears to ...

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Traditional Song: General

1963-1979

This file contains items relating to aspects of traditional music, and includes a copy of 'The Health of Man', a collection of traditional songs from Bedfordshire, Yorkshire, Suffolk and Lancashire, c...

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