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Total number of records: 20

Top 10: Subject

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communities20
culture20
folk music12
community life11
literature and folklore9
persons7
english language - dialects6
manners and customs6
communication5
human body5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ashton, John9
Slack, Harry4
Clayman, Sarah1
Dunn, Ginette1
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)1
Orbell, Margaret Rose1
Sofer, Zvi D (1980)1
Timpunza Mvula, Enoch S1
Webb, Percy1
Yeriwa, Jikong Stephen1

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Mrs. Clayman

[1965-1966]

Mrs. Sarah Clayman at Donisthorpe Hall, a Jewish old people's home in Leeds (West Yorkshire), during a visit by Dr. Zvi Sofer .

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Maori Folk Literature 2

Orbell, Margaret Rose

1973-1975

This file contains 2 offprints by Margaret Orbell on Maori folktales, being 'Two Versions of the Maori Story of Te Tahi o te Rangi', offprinted from the 'Journal of the Polynesian Society', volume 82,...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1975

Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common on the 27 June 1975; sings 'The Boy Truly Regrets'; [gap]; 'I Wonder Who's Kissing You Now (Because I Love You)'; [ 'Fiddler's Green']; 'Flanagan's Band...

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Irish Music

1974-1975

This file contains copies of three publications containing the melodies to Irish tunes. These include 'Music From Ireland', volumes 1 and 2, compiled by Dave Bulmer and Neil Sharpley (n.p.: B&S, 1974)...

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"Gypsies: General"

1966-1975

This file contains two photocopies of Stewart Sanderson's typed 'Gypsy Bibliography' (August 1974); mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings from 'Country Life', 'The Countryman' and the 'Northumberlan...

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Folk-Song in a Musical Tradition. (A Study of Irish Traditional Singing in Leeds)

Ashton, John

1975

M.A. study which examines folk song as part of a living Irish cultural tradition in Leeds, based on fieldwork and research carried out between November 1974 and April 1975. The discussion is based on ...

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Some Chewa Folk Stories from Central Malawi

Timpunza Mvula, Enoch S

1978

M.A. dissertation which discusses a methodological approach to the study of Chewa traditional narratives, drawing on fieldwork carried out in the Central Region of Malawi between August 1975 and Septe...

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Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 3

1960-1979

This file contains a photocopy of Vivienne Furze's paper on the Devonshire dialect, from an unidentified publication, pp. 20-21; an ms. orthographic and phonetic transcription of Purbeck marblers' dia...

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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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Sacred Language Among the Yamba People: A Case Study of the Power of Language

Yeriwa, Jikong Stephen

1979

A study of the sacred language used by the Yamba people of Cameroon, in ceremonies performed within their society throughout the year. The collector selects samples of sacred utterances (prayers, inju...

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Mines, Mining, and Mining Communities

[1955-1979]

This file largely consists of photocopied articles and magazine and newspaper extracts and cuttings, including G. Bernard Wood's article, 'Relics of Rural Coal Mines', on mining remains in Yorkshire, ...

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Booklists

1951-1980

These files contain bibliographies, catalogues and related items, collected by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivists and members of staff. The items were originally held in one...

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