A large collection of material collected by Nigel and Mary Hudleston reflecting their interest in folk songs, calendar customs, folklore and traditional drama and dance, including sound recordings, notes, newspaper cuttings, photographs, cine film and colour slides.

Nigel and Mary Hudleston collected original recordings of folk songs from Yorkshire and Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s: 'Songs of the Ridings – a collection of Yorkshire folk songs' was published in 2001 after Mary Hudleston’s death. It is for their interest in Yorkshire songs that the Hudlestons are best known, and newspaper articles and a BBC Radio 4 programme have concentrated on this aspect of their work. However, the Hudleston Collection contains not just their field recordings and notes, but also newspaper cuttings, cine film, photographs, and almost 4,000 colour slides recording folklore, calendar customs, and traditional drama and dance. The Collection also includes 37 pottery figures depicting characters from folklore and calendar custom commissioned by the Hudlestons and created by Monica Devey.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External Documents Section below.