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manners and customs40
social life and customs40
community life34
holidays33
culture30
home20
folk music18
occupations18

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Calvert, Valerie E5
Crook, Rosemary3
Tammivaara, Irmeli3
Bell, Brigid M2
Bell, Mary2
Bell, Robert2
Bell, Sheila2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Lyons, Bernard2
Lyons, Gillian2
Dyed Egg
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Dyed Egg

Calvert, Valerie E

[1961-1962]

Pasche egg decorated to resemble a figure wearing a crinoline, on a wooden board in a house in Workington (Cumbria).

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Sound Recording, [Location Unknown]

Bell, Brigid M

24 December 1978

[Collector announcement]; collector's family recorded in conversation whilst eating Christmas Eve supper; discussion covers the food served, Prince Charles' potential bride, Monaco royal family; Luxem...

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Decorated Egg
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Decorated Egg

Calvert, Valerie E

[1961-1962]

Pasche egg decorated with a miniature painting of Friar's Crag (Cumbria), on a wooden board in a house in Workington .

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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Eames, Bronwen A

[1979]

Two performances of the Uttoxeter Feather Guizers' Christmas Mumming Play, recorded in two pubs in Uttoxeter. [The recording level on both is very low, and there is much background noise from people i...

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Easter Egg Survey

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-); Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1962-1963

This sub-subseries includes typed and photocopied questionnaires and covering letters, and ms. and typed responses, to the Folk Life Survey questionnaire on Easter Egg traditions. The survey appears t...

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Dyed Egg
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Dyed Egg

Calvert, Valerie E

[1961-1962]

Decorated pasche egg dyed in onion skins, on a wooden board in a house in Workington (Cumbria).

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Christmas Traditions: Student Survey, 1978-1979

1978-1979

This file contains papers produced by students for the undergraduate degree in Folk Life Studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The papers are the result of a survey exerci...

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Christmas Traditions: Student Survey, 1979-1980

1979-1980

This file contains papers produced by students for the undergraduate degree in Folk Life Studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The papers are the result of a survey exerci...

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Sound Recordings, Somerset

Mitchell, Sarah L G

1978-1979

[Collector announcement: informant collector's mother]; E. M. Mitchell, of Bath, talks about present-day Christmas traditions - shopping, cards, present buying, house decorations; Christmas Eve tradit...

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Easter Egg Survey

1962

This file contains items relating to the Folk Life Survey questionnaire on Easter Egg traditions. The survey appears to have been organised and conducted by Stewart Sanderson and Stanley Ellis. The fi...

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Sound Recordings, Stockton-on-Tees

Schrut, Judith Lynne

January 1977

Foodways: Brenda Conway, recorded in Thornaby, talks about making cheese and potato pie (learned from her mother); recording of informant making the dish in her kitchen; biographical details of the in...

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Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Graham, Jacqueline P

17 January 1979

Graeme Ryan, a student at the University of Leeds, talks about Christmas food and drink; family routine at Christmas; perceptions of Christmas; Father Christmas; carols; decorations. Informant origina...

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