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L: Popular Oral Tradition
1960-1981
This series contains items relating to oral tradition, including folktales, verse, riddles, proverbs and conventional expressions.
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...
Riddles
1960-1978
This subseries contains papers on riddles, and their themes and variations, including a paper by Peter Nalder on the Archer Taylor riddle index, papers by Stewart Sanderson chiefly on Scottish riddles...
Proverbs, Sayings and Expressions
1964-1979
This subseries contains items relating to proverbs, maxims and common expressions. It includes correspondence collected from informants in the Potteries region (Staffordshire) on proverbs and sayings ...
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 ...
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 Romance of Sassi: A Critical and Comparative Study
Shan, Harnam Singh
1964
A study of the Indian tragic romance legend of 'Sassi Punnun', submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Indian Lore and Literature) in the Arts Faculty of the University of London, through th...
Folklore Survey (Goathland)
Green, R J
1963
A fieldwork notebook containing items of folklore collected during July 1963 in Goathland, North Yorkshire, from sixteen informants. For each informant, a name and address are given, and the item coll...
A General Survey of the Folklore Collected in the Area Between and Including Lichfield and Walsall
Higgs, Judith
1973
A descriptive study (contemporary rather than historical) of the folklore of South Staffordshire, in the area between Lichfield and Walsall, based on folklore collected through a newspaper survey and ...
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...
"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...