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Total number of records: 118
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Gayot De Pitaval, Francois (1673-1743) | 19 |
| Gayot De Pitaval, Francois | 18 |
| Richer, Francois (1718-1790) | 18 |
| Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009) | 7 |
| Heppenstall, Rayner (1911-1981) | 5 |
| Carpenter, Edward (1844-1929) | 4 |
| Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) | 3 |
| Bond, Francis Keith | 3 |
| Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850) | 3 |
| Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy | 3 |
Count of Earliest date
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...
Judicial System
[1964-1983]
This subseries contains items relating to criminal activity and punishment. The subject matter largely includes highwaymen and outlaws, the forging of coins in Calderdale (West Yorkshire), and punishm...
The Role of Tradition in Agrarian Protest: England and Wales in the Nineteenth Century
Seal, Graham
1978
M.A. thesis in three parts. The first, The Traditional Nature of Agrarian Society, contains sections on the customary society, the Corn Riots, rituals of justice and the highwayman tradition. Part Two...
Aspects of English Witchcraft
Hagger, C S L
1964
M.A. dissertation (Department of English Literature) on witchcraft in England and New England, focussing on what people have felt, said, written or done about it. In doing this a summary is given of t...
Trade - General
1964-1976
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...
Crime
[1972-1983]
This file contains items on criminal activities, including highway robbery and coining. This includes an ms note from Ivor Clissold to Tony Green describing a custom undertaken on leaving prison, coll...
New Statesman Newspaper, Nov 1996, London
Oct 1996- Nov 1996
Correspondence and article written by Zygmunt Bauman for the New Statesman newspaper. Headline: “The Moth seeks out the lamp - Moral panics over knives, guns, violent schoolchildren and child abu...
University of Leeds, Jul, 2005, Leeds
Apr 2005 - Jul 2005
Correspondence concerning the British Society of Criminology conference titled “The Work of Zygmunt Bauman and its Contribution to Criminology” on 13 July at the University of Leeds.
The People of the City of Liverpool and their Second World War
Bond, Francis Keith
1974
A dissertation comprising the recollections of people living in Liverpool during World War Two, based on tape-recorded conversations with fifteen informants.
The Concept of the Outlaw
Ingham, Julianne A
1981
A dissertation which traces the development of popular traditions concerning the outlaw in literature. The literature chosen is mainly from the Medieval English period. A short comparison with two lat...
Legends About People
1963-1979
This file contains items on legends relating to people, both legendary characters and real people. This includes photocopies of ms. papers by Trevor Lloyd Weedon on the Fianna Finn and the legend of F...
منحة السلوك على تحفة الملوك. minḥatu-sulūk ʿala tuḥfat almulūk
1187-1773
The volume discusses jurisprudence issues; marriage, divorce, women, robbery etcetera. Author: ابي محمد محمود ابن احمد العيني. ʾabī muḥammad maḥmūd ʾaḥmad alʿaī...