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Total number of records: 9596

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	9592
Objects	4

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	9596
University Archive	1
Rudolf Laban Collections	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
culture	3194
occupations	2581
english language - dialects	1988
community life	1842
nature	1661
agriculture	1212
buildings	1158
animals	1113
implements, utensils etc	978
manners and customs	921

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
England	3442
Yorkshire	374
Essex	165
Lincolnshire	165
Lancashire	154
Somerset	143
Norfolk	143
Staffordshire	121
Salop (Shropshire)	121
Devon	121

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)	1532
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)	1198
Wright, John T	571
Wright, Peter	445
Sykes, Donald Richard	358
Barry, Michael V (1935-)	344
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)	323
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)	281
Brunk, Wille	169
Francis, W Nelson (1910-2002)	146

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1800	12
From 1900	9581
From 2000	3

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1899	2
Up to 1999	9578
Up to latest	16

Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture, (Survey of English Dialects, and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies)

Archivists' Papers

Artefacts

Orton Corpus

Film

Folk Life File

The Linguistic Atlas of England

Survey of English Dialects

A Word Geography of England

Maps

Institute Staff Papers

Student Research Papers