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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...
Dates:
1771 - 1999
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Hudleston Collection
Fonds
Reference code: 383
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...
Dates:
1816 - 2003
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
IFSBAC Collection (Institute for Folklore Studies in Britain and Canada)
Collection
Reference code: IFS1
Scope and Contents
A collection of books and journals covering the topics of Canadian language, tradition and history.
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1882 - 2004
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Leslie F. Newman Collection
Fonds
Reference code: 01-006
Scope and Contents
Fifteen volumes of newspaper cuttings collected by Leslie F. Newman relating to folklore and magic, particularly but not exclusively in East Anglia, dating mostly from the early 1920s to 1970. The cuttings are taken from a range of magazines and newspapers, and include articles on witchcraft, folklore, country customs, ghosts, etc.
Dates:
1829 - 1970
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Richard Blakeborough and John Fairfax-Blakeborough Yorkshire Folklore Collection
Fonds
Reference code: ACT/97-005
Scope and Contents
The collection includes copies and extracts from the notebooks of Robert Hird and David Naitby, together with fieldwork collected by Richard Blakeborough; original dialect rhymes and sketches; published folklore articles and folktales; the correspondence and papers of Richard Blakeborough and John Fairfax-Blakeborough. The original manuscripts of Hird and Naitby which Richard Blakeborough copied in part, and from which the older part of his folklore collection derives, appear to...
Dates:
1750 - 1974
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives