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Archives of Cultural Tradition Miscellaneous Manuscripts

 Collection
Reference code: 452

Scope and Contents

An extremely wide and varied collection of material relating to mainly British cultural tradition made up of individual donations to the Archives of Cultural Tradition. It comprises of printed ephemera, hand written accounts and reproduced and original documents across a wide time frame. Items mainly relate to Folklore, dialect, domesticity and British cultural tradition, although other countries are represented. Much of the material covers local history and folk-traditions with newspaper cuttings and relevant articles as well as survey studies collected by the Archives of Cultural Tradition.

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

Dates

  • Creation: 1771 - 1999

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Available to all researchers by appointment

Copyright

Copyright according to document

Extent

64 Box(es)

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

As received

Custodial History

Previously held at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT), transferred to the University of Sheffield Library 2008

Description rules
International Standard for Archival Description - General
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

Contact:
Western Bank Library
University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2TN United Kingdom
+44 (0) 114 222 7299