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communities9
culture9
community life8
english language - dialects7
literature and folklore5
nature5
animals4
communication4
humor4
persons4

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Wright, John T2
Bill1
Clinch, Angela Jane1
Edwards, William1
Mcdavid, Raven Ioor (1911-1984)1
Pearce, Richard Arthur1
Potts, William Taylor Windle (1928-)1
Rickards, William Thomas Leonard1
Stewart, William A1
Thorne, Frank1

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Ballads: General

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains the typed text of a song written about celebrations at Rothwell on the jubilee of George III (25 October 1809), collected by Peter Brears; a photostat copy of the text for 'England ...

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Sound Recording, Devon

Wright, John T

June 1958

Frank Thorne and William Edwards, in conversation in Gittisham; Mr. Thorne talks about farm work, milking, horsemen, father a tenant farmer; [gap, 1 minute]; weeding; haymaking - Mr. Edwards describes...

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"The T. W. Thompson Collection of Gypsy Folk Tales: An Edition with Commentary and Analytical Indexes"

Clinch, Angela Jane

1982

Ph.D. thesis consisting of Thomas William Thompson's folktales collected from English Gypsy Traveller communities between 1908 and 1924. The tales have been classified and arranged according to the Aa...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Wright, John T

24 November 1958

[Collector announcement]; William Rickards, recorded in Egloshayle; talks about farmwork on leaving school; wages; quarry work after World War One; working with his father in his flour mill, and then ...

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Folktales: Miscellaneous 2

[1970-1973]

This file contains items relating to folklore and folktale, including folktales from Sub-Saharan Africa. This includes a photocopy of an ms. paper by Lindi Shembi Williams of the University of Botswan...

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Raven McDavid Articles

McDavid, Raven Ioor (1911-1984)

[1960-1981]

Originally housed in a single folder labelled Complete Set of Xeroxes of Raven McDavid's Articles, these files contain photocopies of printed, typed and draft articles and papers by McDavid, mainly re...

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Traditional Song: General

1963-1979

This file contains items relating to aspects of traditional music, and includes a copy of 'The Health of Man', a collection of traditional songs from Bedfordshire, Yorkshire, Suffolk and Lancashire, c...

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"Urban Negro Speech: Sociolinguistic Factors Affecting English Teachers"

Stewart, William A

[1965]

Typed paper intended for the 'Proceedings of the Conference on Urban Social Dialects and Language Learning' (National Council for Teachers of English, 1965). The paper discusses the difficulties of te...

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History and Blood Groups in the British Isles

Potts, William Taylor Windle (1928-)

1973

Copy of a paper delivered at the Medieval Settlement Seminar at the School of History, University of Leeds, 1 June 1973. This examines the distribution of blood groups and gene frequencies in differen...

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