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Printed leaflets, c. 1914; certificates of exemption, volunteer service and medical examination, 1916-18, belonging to Caleb Howe, a Suffolk farm foreman.

Envelope containing notes and press cutting, 1964, on the role of the constable and village lock-up; transcript of an epigram on a parish priest; short story about a poacher, in the Suffolk dialect; three photographs of miscellaneous seventeenth century documents; and a printed copy of Gentleman's Grocer and Draper Shooting Account.

Manuscript and typescript notes, press cuttings and other printed material relating to bell ringing, horses, rural life and traditions, folk tales, dialect, domestic architecture (including rubbings and sketches of merchants' marks), Herman Biddell, a Suffolk horse breeder, extracts from reference works and a paper on the horse in agriculture.

Suggestions and treatment for Welsh film, 1956, Blaxhall film, 1957, and rural crafts film.

General correspondence, 1966, relating to a [film] order and tape recording of a programme.

Notes for lectures and conferences presented between 1969 and 1980, covering the topics of oral history and techniques for recording it, folk-life and lore, the South Wales miners, horse brasses, George Ewart Evans's own life as a writer; and a printed programme for a family history course, 1984.

Extracts from reference works in connection with village communities, philosophy and horses; letter and article on shepherds from Country Life, Christmas 1974; press cutting, 1984, and a draft letter by George Ewart Evans relating to financial cuts in the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies at Leeds University.

Items originally contained in a file labelled 'British Association and Other Talks', two amended typescript drafts, some handwritten notes and the final version of a lecture entitled 'Anthropology and Oral History', presented at the centenary meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at the University of East Anglia in September 1984, accompanied by notes on the development of the anthropology section of the British Association; and a programme and notices in English and Welsh, advertising forthcoming lectures by George Ewart Evans in 1984.

'The Old Rural Community', transcripts of a series of interviews with the older [named] residents of the village, dated June 1964 - January 1965.

A group apparently being a continuation of 392 above, originally contained in a file labelled 'Tape Transcripts', notes entitled 'Blaxhall Recordings (Eight Tapes)', on the character of the village and its inhabitants; interviews with some of the older people, entitled 'Sam Friend, Framsden' (June 1967), 'Charles Kindred in Albert Love's tape' (June 1969), 'Albert Love' (November 1968), 'Alice Peters', 'John Richard's Tapes: Bill Scoggins and Prentice Lane', 'C. Rookyard', 'George Sadler'; recollections of childhood games and fishing activities; various folk poems, counting rhyme and song. Notes on miscellaneous subjects, including George Ewart Evans's own dreams (1967), a reference work relating to maritime industries and customs, sheep grazing rights, and the significance of certain objects in agriculture. Press cuttings, 1963-78, relating to primitive agriculture, export of old-fashioned flat irons, and blizzards in Wales.

Transcripts of radio talks in the series 'Through East Anglian Eyes', broadcast March 1959 - November 1960, under individual sub-headings: 1. 'Wart Charmers and Fairy Loaves', 2. 'Ancient Ceremonies and Horsemen's Secrets' (two copies), 3. 'The Farm - Last Resort of Magic', [not numbered] 'Cribbage and Time'; a letter, dated November 1959, thanking the author for a loan of the radio scripts.

Scripts for radio programmes relating to horses and horse-lore, broadcast September 1960 - August 1964, namely: 'Next to God We Owe it to the Horses', 'Horse Lore: East Anglia,' 'Insert to Horselore', 'The Farm Horse and his Masters', two copies and an extract from 'Horse Power and Magic'.

Transcript of a radio talk, 'Rural Roundabout', subtitled 'A Displaced Interest', broadcast November 1960, and an untitled typescript, both concerned with the author's move from Wales to Suffolk and the development of his interest in old agricultural customs.

Various East Anglian stories and talks, found with the radio scripts, but not clear whether they were intended for broadcast, comprising: 'A Fireman Called Charlie', 'A Job for Life', 'Michaelmas and Old Memories', 'A Norfolk Farmer's Son', 'Toll for an Old Bellringer' (accompanied by a magazine cutting on bell ringing, dated 1956), and 'Wakers-up and Old Shepherds'.

Suggestions for a series of six thirty-minute BBC programmes on the nature and value of oral history and techniques for recording it; further suggestions for a programme on dialect, making use of interviews recorded on tape by George Ewart Evans.