Trade - General

Description

This file contains items relating to aspects of trading, including a typed paper by Ted Spiegel on Handslag, or striking a bargain, by farmers ([2] leaves); a typed extract listing bad luck beliefs in women's dress shops, collected from a member of the Old Leodiensian XIII Club (23 February 1967); typed information on wife-selling related to Tony Green (1964-1965); typed correspondence between Ann Sutton and Stewart Sanderson on beliefs collected from a London dress shop (28 January 1970); Ian Keil's paper on medieval measures, extracted from the 'Amateur Historian' (Summer 1964), pp. 115-117; Kenneth A. Jacob's article on trade tokens and local history, extracted from the 'Amateur Historian' (Summer 1964), pp. 55-61 and plate; Celia Davies's article on the hay market in Whitechapel High Street, extracted from 'Country Life' (13 November 1969), pp. 1256 and 1258; a photocopy of an ms. bibliography on fairs, compiled by IDFLS archivist Margaret Jackson ([2] leaves; ca. 1976); and mounted
newspaper and magazine cuttings from 'The Guardian', the 'Farmers Weekly', 'Country Life', the 'Airedale and Wharfedale Observer', the 'Yorkshire Evening Post', 'John Peel Jottings' and the 'Bradford Telegraph and Argus', on luck payments, hoisting mechanisms for lifting wagons, baker's notices at Great Wishford (Dorset), a spring balance, the Town Beam at Poole Harbour (Dorset), the display of goods by poulterers at Christmas, Anderson Busfield's account of his family's shop in Guiseley (West Yorkshire), tatters or rag-and-bone men in and around Leeds, and horse fairs at Appleby and Brough Hill (Cumbria) and Wibsey (West Yorkshire).


File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.

Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

There are no access restrictions on items in the Folk Life File.

Material in this collection is in copyright. Photocopies or digital images can only be supplied by the Library for research or private study within the terms of copyright legislation. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain the copyright holder's permission to reproduce for any other purpose. Guidance is available on tracing copyright status and ownership.

Related material

Photographs relating to markets and auctions are held in the Photo File (LAVC/PHO/P). See LAVC/PHO/P1584 -P1604.


Colour photographs of Appleby Horse Fair, taken by Stephen Caunce in 1972, are held at LAVC/PHO/P1605 -P1613.



Spiegel's paper on Handslag was originally accompanied by photographs of striking a bargain at Varde (Denmark), Vrigny (Normandy, France), and York. These were incorporated into the Photo File, and are held at LAVC/PHO/P1602, LAVC/PHO/P1603 and LAVC/PHO/P1604 respectively.


Other papers by Stewart Sanderson are held with Institute Staff Papers at LAVC/STA/1. Papers by Sanderson were also deposited in the Folk Life File, and photographs by him in the Photo File. For a list of these items see LAVC/STA/1 (Associated Material).

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