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An Investigation into the Play of Children Living in a Traditionally Working Class Area of Back-to-Back Housing Property, in Leeds, in May and June, 1962
Collins, J M Mrs; McKelvie, Donald
1962
A study of schoolchildren at play in Leeds, combining researches in education and folk life by two postgraduate students at the University of Leeds. Mrs. Collins was taking a Diploma in Curricular Stu...
Some Aspects of Oral, Social and Material Tradition in an Industrial Urban Area
McKelvie, Donald
1963
The nine chapters in this Ph.D. thesis describe an approach to collecting folklife material in the cities, towns and villages of West Yorkshire (including Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield), with cha...
Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]
McKelvie, Donald
30 November 1961
[Collector announcement]; Hector Deacon, a West Yorkshire rat catcher, describes techniques for catching rats, breeds and habits of rats, explains process of baiting/setting traps, location of traps [...
Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]
McKelvie, Donald
[1960-1963]
Male informant [location not known] talks about the preparation, valuation and sale of sheepskins at a hide and skin market; the preparation of skin by fellmongers; explains the process of separating ...