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Total number of records: 5

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humor5
persons5
community life4
culture3
english language - dialects3
folk music3
manners and customs3
education2
food2
food crops2

Top 10: People and organisations

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Casbon, Herbert1
Chapman, George Fletcher1
Dunn, Ginette1
Durrant, Lil1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
England, Alan1
England, William1
Haddock, Christopher1
Haddock, Elsie1
Johnson, Cissie (1910-)1

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

July 1975

Lil Durrant, recorded at home in Blaxhall [on 1 July 1975]; talks about her mother's songs and singing, and step dancing at weddings; father and siblings; school; work; step dancing with husband at Sh...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Christopher Haddock [ Albert Haddock's brother] and Elsie Haddock, recorded at Sutton Gault on the 22 July 1975; talk about wild mushrooms and mushroom picking; mushroom ketc...

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Jokes, Rhymes and Language

1969-1979

This file includes a mounted newspaper article from the 'Yorkshire Post'(19 November 1979), on children's jokes and Sandra McCosh's fieldwork collecting jokes from schoolchildren in Leeds for her M.A....

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Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

18 Sep 1952

[Side 1] Fred tells anecdote about journey with grandfather to Newbiggin and Newcastle, remembers sitting on back of bus to avoid embarrassment as grandfather had habit of striking up conversation wit...

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Sound Recording, Cheshire

England, Alan

12 December 1970

William England, recorded at home in Northwich; recollects his involvement in the Cheshire [? Comberbach] soul-caking tradition; talks about soul-caking during World War One and the proceeds going tow...

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