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Total number of records: 11

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture9
Leeds Russian Archive1

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folklore11
culture9
manners and customs7
folk music6
community life5
persons5
social life and customs5
rites and ceremonies4
superstition4
conduct of life3

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'Dusty'1
Baldwin, John R1
Bergal, Nancy Ann1
Bilibin, Ivan ︠I︡Akovlevich (1876-1942)1
Chamberlain, John S1
Cook, E. T.1
Cook, Mrs. E. T.1
Cross, Mrs1
Curtin, John1
Dawes, George1

Archive File

The Welsh Love Spoon

Thomas, Barbara J

1966

A study which examines the custom of making and giving carved spoons as love tokens in Wales. Consideration is given to the custom, the spoon itself (shape and form, decoration and how and where it wa...

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Peryshko Finista i︠a︡sna-sokola = Fenist the falcon

Zheleznova, Irina Lʹvovna; Bilibin, Ivan ︠I︡Akovlevich (1876-1942)

1977

Cover title. "Skazki".

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Folkelige afhandlinger

Olrik, Axel (1864-1917); Ellekilde, Hans Lavrids (1891-1966)

1919

Half title: Af Danmarks heltesaga og folkedigtning. "Oplag: 1000 eksemplarer." - title-page verso.

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Neale, Brenda Ann

30 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; male and female [informants on tapes LAVC/SRE/A571r - A573r], recorded in the home of the female's parents in Leeds; discuss courtship/marriage; thoughts on women asking men ...

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Pregnancy and Birth

1964-1976

This file contains items relating to pregnancy and birth customs, and includes a typed paper by Mrs. A. Pennie on baby lore and luck in love (1964), 5 leaves; a photocopy of Audrey Chamberlain's artic...

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Some Aspects of Folk Life in Whitehaven

Graham, Jacqueline P

1980

A study of folk life in Whitehaven, based on information gathered from the collector's grandparents, visitors to their house and other family members, and covering roughly the seventy year period 1910...

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Sound Recordings, Kent

Ross-Glass, Ruth M

c.1975-1980

Recordings of children made at four Kent schools, and adults attending Further Education institutions and a Young Wives' Group. In each case, the informants discuss ten fairy tales, selected by the co...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Bergal, Nancy Ann

13 December 1979

John Curtin, recorded in his home in the Armley area of Leeds. Biographical details; interest in Scottish Country Dance bands; accordion, guitar playing as a teenager; distinction made between traditi...

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Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire

Chamberlain, John S

July/August 1961

Herbert Sykes of Wetwang relates items of weatherlore - rainbows, moon (and associated rhymes), wind direction, horses' behaviour/crows' behaviour (nesting) as signs of weather; Mrs. Sykes relates say...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

23 November 1971

Loreto Todd, recorded at the University of Leeds; talks about the organisation of singing and storytelling in Ireland [informant born in Coalisland, ?studying in the School of English at Leeds at the ...

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Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1969

George Dawes [Dusty Dawes], recorded at home in Meysey Hampton; discusses the chorus to the songs 'Treat My Daughter Kindly' and 'Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups Do Grow'; talks about [?step/?...

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