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Total number of records: 512

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture506
Brotherton Collection4
English Literature3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
folklore512
culture506
manners and customs316
community life222
social life and customs192
play159
occupations149
persons148
english language - dialects140
nature120

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Lincolnshire1
Wales1
France1
England1
Cumbria1
Derbyshire1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)14
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)13
Upton, Clive S13
Cooke, Jane A10
Cook, Catherine9
Bergal, Nancy Ann8
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)7
Green, Anthony E (1943-)7
Palmer, Kingsley6
Wright, Elsie6

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 18006
From 1900506

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1999510
Up to latest2

Archive Collection

Katharine Mary Briggs, correspondence and papers

Briggs, Katharine M (1898-1980)

c.1900-1980

Katherine Mary Briggs was bom in London in 1898, the eldest of three surviving daughters of Ernest and Mary Briggs. The Briggs family had its origins in Yorkshire and had built up its fortune from the...

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Archive Collection

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

University of Leeds

1836-2003

The Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture comprises the combined multiple media holdings of the archives of the Survey of English Dialects (ca. 1946-1978) directed by Harold Orton, and the University of...

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Archive Collection

Edward Clodd, manuscripts, diaries and correspondence, with a collection of his printed books.

Clodd, Edward (1840-1930)

1875-1930

Comprises: (1) BOUND MSS of some of Clodd's books, comprising volumes entitled: Animism, Dreams, Evolution, The Evolution of Religion, Folklore, Jesus of Nazareth, Magic in Names, Miracle Plays, Myste...

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Archive Collection

T.W. Thompson Collection (Gypsy and Traveller related tales and research material)

Thompson, Thomas William

c.1890 -1964

Manuscript and research notes made by T. W Thompson of tales recounted by Gypsies and Travellers and information gathered during these encounters, (notes on language, customs, familial connections, bi...

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Archive Collection

Cottingley Fairies Collection

1920-2010

Comprises: (1) BOOKS: 11 books (and 1 video) related to the case of the Cottingley Fairies, 1973-1998; (2) JOURNAL ARTICLES, 1920-1992: including the 1920 and 1921 issues of the Strand Magazine in whi...

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Archive Sub-collection

Archivists' Papers

1955-1992

Throughout most of its lifetime, the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) employed an archivist to manage its archive and library of dialect and folklife collections, created through the...

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Archive Sub-collection

Folk Life File

1836-1998

This subfonds constitutes the Folk Life File, an archival resource actively created throughout the lifetime of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS), probably in relation to its Folk ...

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Archive Sub-sub-series

Other Questionnaires Consulted

1931-1949

This sub-subseries includes questionnaires, and related items, on language and folk culture from England, the Netherlands, Scotland, Switzerland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

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Academic-Related Correspondence (Professional)

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1956-1983

This sub-subseries contains correspondence relating to Stewart Sanderson's professional activities and interests, both in relation to Folk Life Studies at Leeds, and in his capacity as a leading Briti...

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Archive Sub-sub-series

Bonfire Survey

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1967-1968

This sub-subseries contains papers relating to a collaborative survey of bonfire customs conducted by the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies at Leeds (IDFLS), and the Department of English at ...

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Archive Sub-sub-series

Folklife Survey - Lund

[Institute for Folk Life Studies, Lund]

1968-1969

Photocopies of student (typescript) dissertations and seminar papers deposited in the Folklivsarkivet i Lund[Lund Folklife Archive], covering a wide range of Swedish folklore and folklife topics [Swed...

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Folklife Survey - Uppsala

Landsmåls- och folkminnesarkivet i Uppsala

[1960s]

Photocopies of typescript folklife questionnaires [Swedish text], selected English translations of some of these questionnaires, and the Uppsala folklife classification scheme [English text].

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