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archive administration26
culture21
community life18
communication13
education11
english language - dialects11
folklore6
occupations6
manners and customs5
social life and customs4

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Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)6
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Brunk, Wille2
Drury, Susan2
Whitfield, Jean2
Eynden, Nadine Van Den1
Green, Anthony E (1943-)1
Greensmith, Pauline R1
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)1
O'Brien, Kathleen Celia1

Archive File

IDFLS Lists of Theses etc. - Correspondence

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-); Drury, Susan

1971-1987

The letters in this file comprise enquiries regarding the purchase of Stewart Sanderson's 'Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations in Folk Life Studies in the University of Leeds 1961-1970', and request...

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Correspondence

1969-1981

Letters to and from Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivists Joyce Salmona(archivist in 1969), Margaret Jackson(1971-1976), Brenda Neale(1976-1978) and Susan Drury(1978-1981). The...

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Application for Copies of Material: IDFLS

1977-1992

Application forms and accompanying correspondence; two lists (ms., typescript photocopies) of dialect theses held in the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies library. The bulk of these items wer...

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General Dialect Related Enquiries

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1929-1971

The larger part of this sub-subseries comprises letters sent to Harold Orton from members of the public, in response to newspaper articles and radio broadcasts on the Survey of English Dialects (SED)....

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Handlist of Dialect Publications at Keele University Library

University of Keele. Library

1976

This file contains a typed handlist of 19th-century Lancashire dialect publications (prose and verse) held at Keele University Library. This includes an accompanying typed letter from the Archivist at...

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Internationale Volkskundliche Bibliographie Classification Scheme

Drury, Susan

1979

Correspondence between Susan Drury and Rolf Brednich, Professor of Folklore at the Universität Göttingen, regarding the 'Internationale Volkskundliche Bibliographie'[ 'International Folklore and Fol...

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Beastings Research

Brunk, Wille

[1967]

Items relating to Wille Brunk's research into beastings, i.e. the first milk drawn from a cow after calving (or bovine colostrum), and its uses. Brunk conducted much of this research through the use o...

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Correspondence File

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-); Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1977-1981

Responses to an International Association of Sound Archivesquestionnaire, from Stewart Sanderson (1977) and Tony Green (1981), detailing the holdings of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studie...

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Remarks upon Field Work for an English Linguistic Atlas of England.

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1953

This file contains a photocopy of Harold Orton's article outlining how the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldwork was conducted, and the 3-4 day process undertaken by fieldworkers to elicit inform...

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Uppsala Key Adaptation

Whitfield, Jean

1963

Jean Whitfield's proposed revision of the Uppsala Real Register (folk life classification scheme). The whole revision is in ms. form, and is accompanied by a letter from Lisa [surname?] (possibly a st...

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Archive Series

Archivists' Correspondence and Related Papers

1962-1992

This series contains correspondence between successive Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivists and non-University of Leeds students and academics, publishers, museums and local m...

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Publishers' Catalogues

1955-1986

The catalogues and related papers gathered in this series relate primarily to folklore/folklife (and some language) book, periodical and map publications. The publishers are mainly British (large mult...

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