National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT) (1975 - 2008)
Dates
- Existence: 1975 - 2008
- Usage: 1997 - 2008
- Usage: 1975 - 1997
Biography
The Sheffield Survey of Language and Folklore was begun in 1964 at the University of Sheffield, to collect material and provide an academic resource centre, and its journal Lore and Language was launched in 1969. The Survey formed the basis of the Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language (CECTAL), inaugurated in 1975 within the University's Department of English to bring the folklore teaching into a unified programme. CECTAL was renamed the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT) in 1997. It closed in 2008 and its holdings were transferred to the University of Sheffield Library and Sheffield Archives. (Taken from A Dictionary of English Folklore by Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud).
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Archives of Cultural Tradition Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Beet Lantern Slide Collection
Charlotte Norman Derbyshire well-dressing collection
The collection comprises manuscript, printed, photographic and audio items relating in the main to Charlotte Norman’s interest and academic research into the Derbyshire well-dressing custom. It also contains a number of academic folklore text books and journals, magazines, transparencies and photographs of corn dollies, canal boat art and Derbyshire calendar customs other than well-dressings.
Dave Bathe Collection of Derbyshire Traditional Dance and Drama
Geoffrey Bullough Collection
A collection of nineteenth and early twentieth-century printed novels assembled by Professor Geoffrey Bullough for the purposes of studying the literary representation of dialect and dialogue.
Halley Maritime Collection
This collection consists of assorted research materials relating to marine convoys and those who played a part in them during the Second World War. It was assembled by Morgiana Halley for her PhD entitled “An Ethnography of Marine Convoys of World War II”, which was completed in 1996 at the University of Sheffield. The collection includes sound recordings of interviews, correspondence, primary documents, poems and songs, newspaper cuttings, photocopies and research notes.
Howard Smith Photographic Collection
The collection comprises photographs taken by Howard Smith between 1991 and 1996 relating to the history of roads including milestones, mileposts, guide stoops, packhorse bridges and other road features, the majority of which were taken in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Includes photographs of mileposts taken in 1991 and 1992 to illustrate Smith's book 'A History of Rotherham’s Roads and Transport' published by the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in 1992.
Hudleston Collection
Newby Collection
Paper and electronic copies of Derek S. Newby’s 'A compilation of ballads and songs of South West Durham'.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External Documents Section below.
Nigel Kelsey Collection of Children's Folklore
Correspondence, fieldwork notes, audio recordings and transcripts, and reference and research material relating to Nigel Kelsey's research into folklore and language of primary school children, mainly dating from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Richard Blakeborough and John Fairfax-Blakeborough Yorkshire Folklore Collection
Southport Mummers Collection
The collection comprises play scripts, photographs (black and white, and colour), newspaper cuttings, printed and manuscript items, newsletters, books and pamphlets.
The Russell Wortley Collection of Traditional Dance, Music and Custom
The collection comprises printed, manuscript and photographic items, including correspondence, notebooks, published and unpublished articles, pamphlets and musical notations, newspaper cuttings, and sound recordings relating to traditional dance, music and custom.
Timmer Collection
A collection of around 250 books and journals covering the topics of Old and Middle English, Old Norse and Germanic languages.
For further details of this collection please see the listing in the External Documents Section below.
Valentine cards
38 Valentine's Day cards, mostly dating from the 1940s, and originating from the United States. One card dates from around 1830.