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Animal Sports: Correspondence
1963-1964
This file contains a typed letter [?from Stewart Sanderson] to Mrs. E. Fieldhouse acknowledging her sending audiotapes on cock-fighting to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) (5 Jun...
Historical Events
1969-1975
This file contains Theo Brown's pamphlet, 'Trojans in the West Country' (St. Peter Port: Toucan Press, 1970), 16 pp.; L. V. Grinsell's pamphlet on the folklore of Stanton Drew (St. Peter Port: Toucan ...
Pagan and Christian Mythology
1955-1976
This file contains items relating to pagan gods and legends, giants and Christian mythology. The file includes a copy of Stewart Sanderson's paper, 'Abitanti Soprannaturali delle Acque Scozzesi / Supe...
Winter and Spring Festivals
1965-1980
This file contains items relating to New Year, Valentine's Day and Shrove Tuesday customs. This includes a typed copy of a letter from Clare Elkin to Stewart Sanderson on the custom of painting New Ye...
Horses, Cattle and Draft Animals
1960-1973
This file contains items on livestock, in particular cattle and horses. The focus is largely on the general care and management of cattle and horses, folklore relating to their care, medicine, dialect...
The Courtney Manuscript and Related Papers
1973-1974
This file contains papers relating to the republication of Margaret Courtney's 'Cornish Feasts and Folklore' (originally published Penzance: Beare, 1890). Tony Green, lecturer at the Institute of Dial...
Cottingley Fairies
1967-1977
This file contains items relating to the Cottingley Fairy photographs, and includes a photocopy of an article from the 'Times' (3 March 1921); a photocopy of a page from Harry Houdini's 'A Magician Am...
Sheep, Geese, Bees and Dogs
1957-1973
This file contains items relating largely to the care and management of sheep, but also items on geese, bees and dogs. This includes a typed copy of a letter on sheepshearing in Cumberland, from 'Will...
Basket, Straw and Rope-Work
1960-1973
This file includes a photocopy of typed notes made by Rodney Cousins on basket-making, collected from H. Summers, basketmaker, Sutton-on-Trent (November 1969) and from Herbert Lloyd Johnes' 'The Baske...
Survey of English Dialects Sound Recording Documentation and Transcriptions
1964-1973
This file contains documentation relating to sound recordings made for the Survey of English Dialects (SED), including informant records; and transcriptions of SED sound recordings. These include Mich...
Sound Recordings, Somerset
Mitchell, Sarah L G
1978-1979
[Collector announcement: informant collector's mother]; E. M. Mitchell, of Bath, talks about present-day Christmas traditions - shopping, cards, present buying, house decorations; Christmas Eve tradit...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Bergal, Nancy Ann
13 December 1979
John Curtin, recorded in his home in the Armley area of Leeds. Biographical details; interest in Scottish Country Dance bands; accordion, guitar playing as a teenager; distinction made between traditi...