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An Investigation into the Play of Children Living in a Traditionally Working Class Area of Back-to-Back Housing Property, in Leeds, in May and June, 1962
Collins, J M Mrs; McKelvie, Donald
1962
A study of schoolchildren at play in Leeds, combining researches in education and folk life by two postgraduate students at the University of Leeds. Mrs. Collins was taking a Diploma in Curricular Stu...
Sound Recording, West Midlands
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Brian Hartshorne, a butcher recorded in Wolverhampton [continued from tapes LAVC/SRE/A716r and LAVC/SRE/A717r]; talks about butchers' back slang (for animal names/meat cuts and other terms); explains ...
Sound Recording, [Location not given]
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Collector's father talks about the names given to people involved in the butchering and meat trade; and explains the butchers' use of back slang (a form of communication between butchers and their sta...
Appleby Horse Fair: Pony
Caunce, Stephen
June 1972
Boy on the back of a pony which is for sale, at Appleby Horse Fair, Appleby (Cumbria). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1609.
Farm Cart Aquatint
[1970s]
Photograph of an aquatint illustration by William Pyne, of a view from the back of two farmworkers unloading a basket from a farm cart drawn by a single horse. An old woman stoops next to the cart. Th...
SED Word Map: Left-Handed
[1960s-mid 1970s]
Experimental printed word map, completed in typescript, for SED question VI.7.13, Left-Handed, mapping responses Gammy-, Watty-, and Back-Handed.
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Houck, Charles L
[Mid 1960s-1970s]
Interview with male informant in his home in Leeds, recorded as part of the collector's sociolinguistic inquiry in the city. The recording was made using a radio transmitter in the informant's house, ...
Sound Recording, Staffordshire
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Ivy Simmons/? Ivy Simmonds, recorded with her husband [?at home in Tamworth]. Conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A545r, concerning the language of the meat trade. Informant gives th...
"Gypsy Camp"
Hartley, Dorothy
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken ca. 1920 at a Gypsy Traveller camp at an unknown (English) location. A hare has been hung from a tree by its back legs and will be eaten later. Mounted on Photo File card.
Couple Reading
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph dating to the early-20th century, of a man and woman sitting on wooden chairs in a dwelling house at an unidentified location. The woman has her back to the camera and is reading ...
Sound Recording, [Location not given]
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Male informant [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A542r] relates terminology associated with meat curing, the contamination of meat and the types of pest, vehicles used by butchers/meat traders, the names ...
Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies Staff
[Early 1970s]
Harold Orton (back left) and members of staff standing outside the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies building. The building is now one of the houses which forms part of the modern School of E...