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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...

Scope and Contents 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...