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Hunting, Shooting, and Trapping
1973
This subseries, comprising one file only, includes an ms. diagram and notes on an animal trap seen at Stokesley, North Yorkshire, 27 October 1973, by Tony Green; David Cleveland's article on punt-gunn...
Village and Farm
1960-1973
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items on village and farm life, and related topics. This includes W. E. Tate's paper, 'Parish Records and the English Village Community', extracted f...
K.A. Robertson sketches
c. 1937-1958
Undated pencil, ink and watercolour sketches on paper and tracing paper by K.A. Robertson, including studies of African children and adults, animals, biblical scenes, human and animal anatomy, vehicle...
Questionnaire Response Books
1950-1961
This subseries contains the original response books in which the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers recorded informants' responses to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. A response book exists f...
Plants and Animals
1947-1981
This subseries contains items relating to aspects of plant and animal lore, including a study of Yorkshire plant names, a questionnaire on plant names in Norway, items on plantlore, cuttings from a pe...
Care and Management of Livestock
1957-1973
This subseries contains items relating to the care and management of livestock on farms, including papers, and magazine and newspaper cuttings (chiefly from 'Country Life'), which focus largely on hor...
Parish and Church
[1965-1975]
This subseries, comprising a single file only, includes Werner Kissling's ms. notes on the Foresters' Walk in Coverdale (connected with the Ancient Order of Foresters) and its byelaws; Margaret Ottley...
Lore and Legend of the Western Fen Borderland
Toffler, Lenora Clare
1967
A study of the folklore of eleven informants living in villages to the north of Peterborough ( Crowland, Helpston, Whittlesey, Glinton and Maxey). The study comprises five chapters, with the first pre...
"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...
An Account of the Home Life, Leisure-Time Activities and Community Traditions of the Northumbrian Coal Miner, Dealing Mainly with the Period 1900 to 1930
Fryer, Sheila
1964
A dissertation based on interviews with seven miners and ex-miners from Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne. The first of its three chapters contains a biographical note on, and the recollections o...
Cockle Fishing at Leigh-on-Sea
Walker, Priscilla
1965
A dissertation on the cockle fishing industry of Leigh-on-Sea. The study comprises sections presenting a historical outline of the town and growth of the industry, the rise of the industry since 1840,...
The Language of the Meat Trade: A Survey of Terms Used by a Selected Sample of Butchers in the United Kingdom
Upton, Clive Stanley
1977
Ph.D. thesis containing seven chapters and three appendices, presenting the findings of an enquiry into the technical lexicon of the meat trade of the United Kingdom which was carried out between 1973...