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69 + 55 Ways to Aural Stimulation and Entertainment. A Look at the Joke
Turner, Anthony J P
1973
A survey of the joke and joke telling, with sections concerning the collection, provenance and classification of the 124 jokes and shaggy dog stories recorded on accompanying 15cm x 10cm index cards. ...
Jokes, Anecdotes, Etc.
1979-1980
This file contains an ms. collection of jokes made by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) undergraduate student Kathryn Dearden at Christmas, 1979; and mounted newspaper cuttings from t...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
McCosh, Sandra
[1973/1974]
Four 12/13 year old boys, recorded at Royal Park School in Leeds, discuss television comedians; give examples of Irish and Jewish jokes; when/to whom jokes are told; dirty jokes; black jokes; Scottish...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Harwood, Lancashire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Feb 1954
[Side 1] Polly tells series of anecdotes: recalls woman's 'boa' [= fur stole] blowing off in wind and being mistaken for snake and buried in churchyard, remembers sexton digging grave early one mornin...
The Black Country Dialect: A Collection of Words, Phrases, and Stories
Starkey, H J
1953
This file comprises an ms. notebook containing a collection of words, phrases and dialect texts of the Black Country (i.e. South Staffordshire, North Worcestershire and North West Warwickshire), compi...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Thomson, Sydney
15 November 1972
Children of Armley Park School in Leeds talk about children's reading and writing; where they live; tell jokes (including English/Irish/Scottish and rude); collector tells a joke; children discuss the...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
26 June 1974
Bob Hart, Lenny Savage and Jack Foreman, recorded at the Golden Key pub in Snape; general conversation [much background noise, distortion of voices, multiple conversations, makes this section hard to ...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Cook, Catherine
[1970-1971]
Compilation of several field recordings. Male and female informants talk about practical jokes, local ministers and preachers, recite dialect poetry, coffins carried on sledges over snow, anecdotes co...
"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...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Latham-Thorpe, Jane Elizabeth
1976
Child and adult groups, recorded in Leeds. First session Children's Group: 5 schoolchildren relate their versions of the same (humorous, supernatural) narratives. Second session Children's Group: sa...
Military Humour
Wills, Caroline
1979
A study of verbal military humour, based on written items sent to the collector from a British Army unit based in Antwerp (70 items), and 500 items from the Humor in Uniform pages of the 'Readers' Dig...
Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
1964-1966
Unedited Field Master tape. Male sings [4 unidentified, one a fragment]. [Tr. 6] Female sings [2 unidentified]. [Tr. 7] Singers [?recorded in a pub]. Male sings 'Don't Go Down the Mine Dad' [par...