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Settlement
[1950-1973]
This sub-subseries contains items relating to settlers and types of settlement. The items relate mostly to Ireland.
A: Settlement and Dwelling
1859-1982
This series contains collected items intended for reference and research into human settlements and dwellings. The subject matter largely includes types of settlement, historic remains of settlements,...
B: Livelihood and Household Support
1951-1982
This series contains items largely relating to traditional occupations and industries, and home economics.
First Settlement and Colonisation
1950-1976
This subseries contains items relating to human settlement and the prehistoric and historic remains of settlements. It includes information on the history and remains of dwellings and religious settle...
Village and Farm
1960-1973
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items on village and farm life, and related topics. This includes W. E. Tate's paper, 'Parish Records and the English Village Community', extracted f...
Farms
1954-1979
This subseries contains items relating to farmhouses and the various types of buildings associated with and found on farms. This includes a file of magazine cuttings and articles on various aspects of...
Temporary Dwellings
1972
This subseries, comprising one file, contains mounted cuttings from 'Country Life' magazine on dwellings made from upturned boats at Pett Level, East Sussex, and Loch Long, Dunbartonshire. (There is s...
Villages
1971
This subseries, comprising one file, contains a two-part article by John Cornforth on the village of Old Deerfield, Massachusetts, extracted from 'Country Life' magazine (22 July 1971, pp. 214-217, an...
Towns
1966
This subseries, comprising one file, contains a photocopy of Stewart Sanderson and Stuart Piggott's chapter on Edinburgh and its history and development, from the Edinburgh volume of 'The Third Statis...
The Dwelling House
1966-1982
This subseries contains items relating to various aspects of the dwelling house and vernacular architecture, including types of houses and buildings, and interior architecture, fittings, equipment and...
Crafts, Trades and Industries
1951-1981
This subseries contains items on traditional crafts, trades and industries. The subjects represented include crafts in Warwickshire and Ireland, terminology relating to wheelwrighting, Sam Hanna's fil...
Parish and Church
[1965-1975]
This subseries, comprising a single file only, includes Werner Kissling's ms. notes on the Foresters' Walk in Coverdale (connected with the Ancient Order of Foresters) and its byelaws; Margaret Ottley...