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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...
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.
Handknitting
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
1963
Miss Elizabeth Dinsdale knitting a stocking using traditional curved needles, with a sheath tucked into a belt, Hawes ( Wensleydale). A top crook holds the knitting firmly round her waist at the back....
Farmworker and Horse
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph dating from the turn of the 19th/20th century, of a farmworker (possibly the farm foreman) with a horse at a farm in Thixendale (North Yorkshire). The horse wears a Scotch collar ...
Farm Lad with Horse
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph dating from the turn of the 19th/20th century, of a young farm lad with a horse at a farm in Thixendale (North Yorkshire). The horse wears a plain English collar and is harnessed ...
Calderdale Pace Eggers
[1960s]
Copy of a photograph of a pace egg play being performed at the Calder Valley Folk Festival, in an unidentified town in Calderdale (West Yorkshire), in 1956. The players are all children (boys). The Do...
Quoits
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
June-August 1964
Two teenage boys playing quoits on a grass verge by the road at Castle Bolton ( Wensleydale). One of the boys has just thrown a quoit. Adult males from the village look on. Mounted on Photo File card ...
Quoits
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
June-August 1964
Two teenage boys playing quoits on a grass verge by the road at Castle Bolton ( Wensleydale). One of the boys is just about to throw a quoit. Adult males from the village look on. Mounted on Photo Fil...
Brighouse Pace Eggers
Tylor, Mr
[1960s]
Copy of a photograph taken in the 1940s, of members of the Brighouse Children's Theatre performing a pace egg play in the open air at Brighouse (West Yorkshire). The Doctor, wearing a top hat and dark...
Brighouse Pace Eggers
Tylor, Mr
[1960s]
Copy of a photograph taken in the 1940s, of members of the Brighouse Children's Theatre performing a pace egg play in the open air at Brighouse (West Yorkshire). The Doctor, wearing a top hat and dark...
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...
Ijele Masquerade
Maduakor, Robert Obiatuegwu
1978
Card-mounted copy of a photograph taken ca. 1976 of an Ijele dancing at an Ijele Masquerade (Nigerian East Central State). The Ijele costume consists of a frame made of lightweight materials, which is...