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Social Intercourse
1967-1972
This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to drinking and inns/public houses. This includes James Stevens Curl's article on gin palaces and their disappearance, extracted ...
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...
The Leeds Wash-Houses: A Study of Urban Folk Life
Wilson, Janet Elizabeth
1976
A study of wash-houses in Leeds, based on information gathered from official handbooks and annual reports, newspaper articles and interviews with women using wash-houses (some also conducted in their ...
Elements of an Urban Musical Tradition and its Setting
Morson, I F
1969
Dissertation for the Postgraduate Diploma in Folk Life Studies, which details some elements of a musical tradition in north-west Oxford. Such elements include what songs are sung, the attitude of the ...
Folk-Song in a Musical Tradition. (A Study of Irish Traditional Singing in Leeds)
Ashton, John
1975
M.A. study which examines folk song as part of a living Irish cultural tradition in Leeds, based on fieldwork and research carried out between November 1974 and April 1975. The discussion is based on ...
Inns and Inn Signs
Trevette, Veronica
1968
A study of forty-five North London inns and their signs, and the roles they play(ed) in local history and geography. Sections provide a general introduction to the role of the inn, the brewery in medi...
University Archive
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1960-1980
This file contains original and copy correspondence, and related papers, concerning Stewart Sanderson's activities as an academic folklorist. Its contents seem to have been selected by Sanderson for d...
Playground Jingles
Hawkes, A D
1973
This file contains photocopies of a series of four articles from the 'Bradford Telegraph and Argus', written by A. D. Hawkes in May 1973. The articles focus on the playground jingles, i.e. chants and ...
The Role of the Public House in an Urban Environment
Hargreaves, Janet
1979
A study which examines the importance of public house visiting as a major leisure time activity, the pub as the centre of a community, and the customs and attitudes associated with the pub within an a...
Loans Register
1977-1983
This small binder originally had the label Loans Register. For the use of Mr. Tony Green only sellotaped to its front [part has come away and is now held inside the binder]. It contains typed forms be...
The Tradition of Pub Singing in the Villages of East Suffolk, with Songs from Bob Hart of Snape and Percy Webb of Tunstall
Mackay, Donald
1971
A study of the pub singing tradition in East Suffolk, with particular reference to the singers Bob Hart from Snape, and Percy Webb of Tunstall. The first of four chapters presents an introduction to t...
A Popular Singing Tradition of an Area of South-East London
Wetton, Anne Lindsey
1974
A collection of popular songs recorded in 1973/1974 from informants living in and around the Bexleyheath area of London. Text and (some) tune transcriptions are presented, with comments from the colle...