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Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire
Chamberlain, John S
July/August 1961
Schoolboy [? Stephen Sissons, recorded in a pub in Wetwang] describes children's games - jacks, hide and seek (including the dipping rhyme 'One Potato Two Potato'), Block (similar to hide and seek), B...
Notes for Thesis
Whitfield, Jean
1963
This file contains draft ms./typed notes relating to a proposed thesis, 'Survey Work in Folklore: A Critical Examination of Sources and Methods'. The author, Jean Whitfield, is described by Angela Cli...
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...
Papers on Fieldwork
[ca. 1969]
Photocopies of Donald A. MacDonald, 'Fieldwork: Collecting Oral Literature' (pp. 408-430); Warren E. Roberts, 'Fieldwork: Recording Material Culture' (pp. 431-444); George List, 'Fieldwork: Recording ...
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 Recording, West Yorkshire
Ingham, Julianne A; Andrew, Yolande
December 1979
Examples of games, rhymes and songs collected from children at Quarry Mount Primary School in Leeds.
Sound Recordings, Greater Manchester
Waller, Vivien M
1961-1962
Schoolgirls give examples of skipping rhymes and chants, explanations of circle and chasing games. Edited compilation of fieldwork recordings made in schools in Salford, Eccles, Hulme and Walkden ( Gr...
The Games of Junior School Children
Waters, Janice
1964
A descriptive account of schoolchildren's games, with reference to the printed collections of a number of childlore scholars. Textual transcriptions are included, but it is unclear whether these were ...
Children's Games and Rhymes
Kenworthy, Valerie D
1965
A collection of children's games and rhymes collected from boys and girls of the second form of Ossett Grammar School in West Yorkshire. The contributors were then resident in Ossett, Wakefield and Ho...
Sound Recordings, [Italy]
Institute of Early Childhood Development
[1970s]
This is the third of four Italian tapes in the 'Multicultural Cassette Series: Stories, Songs and Rhymes for Young Children', produced by Gwenda Davey and recorded by Norman O'Conner (Victoria: Instit...
Sound Recordings, [Macedonia]
Institute of Early Childhood Development
[1970s]
This is the first of two Macedonian tapes in the 'Multicultural Cassette Series: Stories, Songs and Rhymes for Young Children', produced by Gwenda Davey and recorded by Norman O'Conner (Victoria: Inst...