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Archive File

The Development of Research into Children's Folklore in England

Chamberlain, John S

1961

M.A. research dissertation comprising essays intended to show the general development of responsible interest in children's folklore since the late eighteenth century. The study assesses the importanc...

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Higgs, Judith

March 1973

[Announcement, made by collector's mother, a nurse visiting the informant]; Richard Mills and his wife recorded in Walsall Wood; Mr. Mills sings 'The Old Folks Jim', 'A Lady in Hospital' and 'I'm Foll...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

[September 1981]

Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; talks about food shopping for a large family; gardening and vegetable growing; breakfast; dinners (week's menu); offal/meat products; le...

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Leeds Teaching Notes

Brunk, Wille

[1966-1968]

This file contains papers created by Brunk for use in tutorials and lectures given to undergraduate students at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The papers contained within this...

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Sports and Athletic Games

1961-1974

This file contains items relating to sports and games of athletic ability, skill, strength and endurance. This includes a copy of 'The Ancient Haxey Hood Game (An Ancestor of Football?)', by J. W. ff....

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Reed [location not given] talks about his family; farming for 54 years; ploughing with horses; his role as Church Warden and the role of the Church Council; reference to Lord Sidmouth and Lady Sid...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

2 October 1974

Basil Bennett, recorded at home in Snape; talks about learning songs whilst in the Army and the Navy - 'I'm in Love with Two Sweethearts' and 'Farewell My Own True Love'; his and other people's repert...

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Other Institutions

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1964-1983

This file contains correspondence between Stewart Sanderson and colleagues at academic and related institutions. It includes a typed questionnaire on folklife research in Europe from the Commission In...

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Sound Recordings, Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Bulmer, A Gillian

[1974-1980]

Copy tape of fieldwork recordings. The original recordings were made in April 1974. The date when this copy tape was made is not known. [Collector announcement]; Harry Williams, recorded in Longtown...

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Sound Recordings, Shropshire

Hubbard, Wendy E

October-November 1958

[Collector announcement]; William Moore, [?recorded in Albrighton (Shropshire)], talks about his father's haulage business; harvesting; the weather; his father; a motorbike; an anecdote about retrievi...

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