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Total number of records: 38

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society8
Brotherton Collection4
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture3
Herbert Read Collection2
Liddle Collection2
Leeds Russian Archive1
Ripon Cathedral1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
legends6
english literature4
folk literature, english4
english language2
world war, 1914-19182
architecture1
commerce1
dialect literature, english1
guilds1
history1

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Lancashire (England)38
England8
Cheshire (England)4
Staffordshire (England)4
Yorkshire (England)4
Derbyshire (England)3
Lancashire (Angleterre)2
Accrington (England)1
Blackburn (England)1
Burnley (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Roby, John (1793-1850)6
Baines, Edward (1774-1848)4
Whatton, William Robert (1790-1835)4
Aikin, John (1747-1822)3
Stockdale, John (1749?-1814)3
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)2
Chetham Society2
Great Britain. Army. East Lancashire Regiment. Battalion, 11th (Service)2
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey2
Billinge, Thomas1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17005
From 180018
From 190015

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17995
Up to 189918
Up to 199915

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Traditions of Lancashire (v.1)

Roby, John (1793-1850)

1867

"In the two volumes... the reader will possess not only the whole of the contents of both series, ... but also three additional stories from the posthumous volume, with a memoir, ..."

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Traditions of Lancashire (v.2)

Roby, John (1793-1850)

1867

"In the two volumes... the reader will possess not only the whole of the contents of both series, ... but also three additional stories from the posthumous volume, with a memoir, ..."

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Tim Bobbin's Lancashire dialect and poems

Bobbin, Tim (1708-1786); Cruikshank, George (1792-1878)

1828

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North Country bred : a working-class family chronicle

Davies, Clarice Stella Spencer; Perkin, Harold

1963

Includes bibliography (pages 249-250) and index.

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Lancashire and Yorkshire

Walmsley, Leo (1892-1966)

[1951]

"A short reading list" : page 92.

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Murray's Lancashire architectural guide

Fleetwood-Hesketh, Peter (1905-1985); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1955]

The third in a series of architectural guides edited by John Betjeman and John Piper. This volume traces the history and development of architecture in Lancashire through an essay, 270 black and white...

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National commercial directory: Cumberland, Lancashire, Westmoreland: Pigot and Co

Winton, Michael (1939-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); J. Pigot & Co

1995

On facsimile title page: Pigot and Co.'s national commercial directory; for 1828-9; comprising a directory and classification of the merchants, bankers, professional gentlemen, manufacturers and trade...

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The 'Accrington pals' : the 11th (Service) Battalion, (Accrington), East Lancashire Regiment : a pictorial history

Turner, William

1986

Cover title: The 'Accrington pals': a tribute to the men of Accrington and district, Blackburn, Burnley, Chorley and the neighbouring villages, who volunteered, fought and died in 'The Great War' 1914...

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History of the county palatine and duchy of Lancaster (v.1)

Baines, Edward (1774-1848); Whatton, William Robert (1790-1835)

1836

Initials.

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History of the county palatine and duchy of Lancaster (v.2)

Baines, Edward (1774-1848); Whatton, William Robert (1790-1835)

1836

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History of the county palatine and duchy of Lancaster (v.3)

Baines, Edward (1774-1848); Whatton, William Robert (1790-1835)

1836

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