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Various handwritten notes, printed articles and press cuttings, originally in a file entitled 'Survivals', relating to: Welsh local history and the canals of Wales and the border, together with the typescript of a radio feature entitled 'Our Parish', set in Llanwynno; evolution and genetics; anthropology; relationship of body and mind; philosophy; rural implements; horse lore; country traditions; social values; language, dialect and relevance of the oral tradition; mythology; preservation of East Anglian culture; literature; extracts from reference works.

Contents of a file entitled 'Oral History', comprising notes, printed and typescript articles, press cuttings, occasional correspondence and a postcard, relating to: approach to recording oral history (1974); early man and prehistory; collection of folk songs and dances by Cecil Sharp and Douglas Kennedy; agricultural work; loss of rural crafts to technology; rural buildings; superstition connected with fishing; class and society; anthropology; Welsh folk stories, especially Beddgelert; George Ewart Evans's diary of events and thoughts at the time of an operation in Reading, October 1983.

Manuscript and typed notes under various headings: 'Charles Edward Fisher (born 1888)' and the subject of malting; 'Bob and Percy's Place', a description of the lives of two elderly cottagers; 'Interview with Hubert Reeve', 'Wheelwrights', 'Shottisham Street'; 'Mr Teddy Baker', 1987, on village life in Alderton; other notes on dialect; extracts from Bawdsey school minute book, 1902-20; harvest and allotment agreements with related letter attached; article on contemporary capitalism entitled 'Thatcher Puts the Clock Back'; notes from reference works on harvest customs and measurements used for the construction of Mediaeval houses.

Recollections of local (named) characters, regarding customs associated with Blaxhall Ship Fair Day, sheep shearing, village families and childhood.

Typed inventory of miscellaneous implements, instruments, pictures and archaeological finds, with the names of their owners [? possibly for the Blaxhall exhibition].

Typescript copy of the Rector's address at the funeral of Raymond Wilfrid Cordy Keer, who died on 15 April 1966.

Press cuttings: a page from the Ipswich Journal, Nov. 1894, in an envelope covered with the author's notes; an envelope containing articles (one dated 1912) about the Ashburnham family; miscellaneous cuttings, 1949-67, relating to prehistory, archaeology, local history, place-names, early agricultural machinery, rural crafts, Iorwerth Peate on the preservation of small communities (The Times, 2 September 1958), the Phoenix Trust, regional cultures, architecture, literature, attitudes to and techniques for interviewing, sociology, folklore, changes in rural communities, study of Scottish culture, the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, cookery and dialect.

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.