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Vocal Music: General
1958-1979
This sub-subseries contains items on general aspects of traditional song, and includes collections of folk songs, a copy of a paper by Herbert Halpert on the attitude of American folk singers, lists o...
Ballad
[1960s-1970s]
This sub-subseries contains items on the ballad, and includes ballad texts, comparative studies and papers by Emily Lyle on 'Thomas the Rhymer'.
Folk Song
1958-1981
This sub-subseries contains items on folk song, including texts and tunes. These include copies of song texts submitted by various informants to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS);...
M: Folk Music, Dance and Drama
1936-1982
This series contains items relating to aspects of traditional performance, including music, dance and drama. The items include studies of folk performance, as well as song texts and tunes, and transcr...
Audiotape Sound Recordings
1954-1981
The majority of the tapes in this series contain fieldwork recordings made by students pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate courses in folk life or dialect at the University of Leeds, through the D...
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...
Vocal Music
1958-1981
This subseries contains items relating to aspects of traditional vocal music, including ballad and folk song. The subject matter includes informants' song collections, institutional collections of fol...
Instrumental Music
[1936-1977]
This subseries contains items on traditional instrumental music. The subject matter includes organ pipes, types of bands, piping in Northern England and Irish music.
Oral Tradition
1954-1982
This subseries contains items relating to oral traditions amongst children, and includes items on children's songs and rhymes; Peter Millington's collection of Nottinghamshire rhymes; papers by Gwenda...
Student Folklore Dossiers
1971-1982
Student folklore dossiers, variously subtitled Scheme B - Folk Life 1: First Term Exercise, and Folk Life Exercise: First Term. Each compilation includes the student's biographical details, and items ...
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...
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...