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Total number of records: 178

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Archives111
Books and printed items67

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture95
Leeds Russian Archive31
Liddle Collection8
English Literature2
Brotherton Collection1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman1
University Archive1

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education178
community life95
culture76
english language - dialects49
manners and customs32
occupations32
archive administration26
folk music26
social life and customs24
agriculture23

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Russia22
France3
Burma1
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Great Britain1
Hertfordshire1
India1

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ObʺEdinenie Rossiiskikh Zemskikh I Gorodskikh Dei︠At︡Elei22
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)7
Pickering, Michael J7
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)6
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)5
Barry, Michael V (1935-)4
Leeds Animation Workshop4
Plato4
Brunk, Wille3
Helvetius, Claude Adrien (1715-1771)3

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Archive File

Collected Papers

Brunk, Wille

1965-1967

This file contains papers received and collected by Wille Brunk during his assistant lectureship at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). This includes a copy of Åsa Werner-Ljungstr...

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Archive File

Footwear Collecting

Finlay, Ian

1972-1975

This file largely contains papers produced by Ian Finlay, founder of the Footwear Collectors' Society, on the subject of collecting footwear. This includes a photocopy of an article on Finlay, forming...

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Archive Print Item

Collection of speeches

Butler, Harcourt (1869-1938)

[1927]

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Archive Sub-series

Miscellaneous Collections of Folklore

1951-1985

This subseries contains typed and printed items relating to folklife activities and research, both in the United Kingdom, and in Europe and the United States. It includes printed ephemera and guides t...

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Archive Judaica Collection

Cecil Roth Collection

1200-1999

Throughout his life Cecil Roth (1899-1970) collected books, manuscripts, and art objects. The books and manuscripts of scholarly interest, and modern books, were acquired by Leeds University Library t...

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Archive File

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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Alfred Williams Collection: Index

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of a typed index to the Alfred Williams Collection of Folk Songs at Swindon Reference Library, collected in the early 20th century. The index was compiled by Frank Pursl...

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Pamphlet collection compiled by Lord Boyle of Handsworth

Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)

c.1945-1981

1141 pamphlets held in 40 pamphlet boxes on 5 shelves. Sorted and boxed by broad subject. Possibly the bequest of Lord Boyle, ca.1981 Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, P.C., C.H....

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Autograph Albums 1900-1935: A Classified Collection

O'Brien, Kathleen Celia

1978

A study of autograph albums, based on responses to appeals for information made by the collector in three Yorkshire newspapers. This yielded letters from over 170 people, and the loaning of more than ...

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The Passing of a Community and its Songs: A Study Based on the Unpublished Manuscript Collection of Songs from Adderbury, North Oxfordshire, made by Janet Heatley Blunt

Pickering, Michael J

1978

Ph.D. thesis concerned primarily with the social background to traditional English song, as found in the manuscript collection made by Miss Janet Blunt in Adderbury, North Oxfordshire. The Introductio...

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