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Total number of records: 55

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culture41
community life26
occupations22
english language - dialects21
manners and customs17
nature15
agriculture13
food13
play13
buildings12

Top 10: People and organisations

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Brunk, Wille6
Dunn, Ginette4
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)4
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)3
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)3
Berntsen, Howard N2
Edwards, Janet E2
Hubbard, Wendy E2
Shinger, Harry2

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Spring and Summer Festivals

1963-1981

This file includes a colour section from the West Yorkshire Road Car Company calendar for 1963 on well-dressing in Tissington, Derbyshire, on Ascension Day; a section of a colour poster on the May Day...

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Winter and Spring Festivals

1965-1980

This file contains items relating to New Year, Valentine's Day and Shrove Tuesday customs. This includes a typed copy of a letter from Clare Elkin to Stewart Sanderson on the custom of painting New Ye...

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The Handforging of Spring Knife Blades in Sheffield

Atkin, K

1966

A thesis on the handforging branch of the Sheffield cutlery trades, based primarily on fieldwork carried out in the workshop of Tom Merrill, one of only three men still forging pen and pocket blades b...

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SED Word Map: Spring Onions
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SED Word Map: Spring Onions

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.7.16, Spring Onions, mapping the distribution of responses Young Onions and Shallots. The map is headed Linguistic Atlas of England.

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SED Word Map: Spring Onions
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SED Word Map: Spring Onions

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.7.16, Spring Onions, mapping the distribution of responses Scallions and Chibboles. The map is headed Linguistic Atlas of England.

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SED Word Map: Spring Onions
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SED Word Map: Spring Onions

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.7.16, Spring Onions, mapping the distribution of responses Chipples, Chibboles and Gibbles. The map is headed Linguistic Atlas of En...

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SED Word Map: Spring Onions
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SED Word Map: Spring Onions

[Early-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.7.16, Spring Onions, mapping the distribution of responses Spring Onions and Green Onions. The map is headed Linguistic Atlas of Eng...

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Rag-and-Bone Cart: Spring
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Rag-and-Bone Cart: Spring

Witton, Lesley A

1971

Old spring on a rag-and-bone cart in Harry Taylor's workshop in Leeds (West Yorkshire). Slide 4 in a series of 19.

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SED Word Map: Spring Onions
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SED Word Map: Spring Onions

[Mid 1960s-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question V.7.16, Spring Onions, showing the distribution of responses Scallions, and Chibboles. The map is completed in typescript, labelled Fig.22, and headed Li...

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Spring Custom in a North-Western Town: March to June in Salford

Edwards, Janet E

1967

A description of Spring calendar customs observed in Salford, Greater Manchester.

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Academic Correspondence File 10

1966-1968

"Kansas Visit (1967) - Prof. Zuther”. Correspondence between Harold Orton and George Waggoner (Dean), George Worth, Frances Ingemann and Gerhard Zuther of the University of Kansas regarding his teac...

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Horse Team and Cultivator
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Horse Team and Cultivator

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in 1927 of a farm worker with a three-horse team harnessed to a spring-toothed cultivator, in a field on the Yorkshire Wolds. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1708....

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