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Total number of records: 655

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Archives598
Books and printed items57

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture599
Brotherton Collection16
English Literature9
Herbert Read Collection7
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society4
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
Leeds Russian Archive2
Cookery Collection1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1

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play602
occupations367
culture304
community life256
material culture221
folk music180
handicraft178
nature162
agriculture151
implements, utensils etc148

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Nigeria3
England2
Englisch1
SüDafrika Staat1
Uganda1
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Top 10: People and organisations

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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)178
Langhorne, Richard41
Sullivan, Keith Frederick31
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)26
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)21
Dunn, Ginette20
Tammivaara, Irmeli14
Russell, Ian13
Aston, Michael Geoffrey12
Horner, Mr M.12

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Archive Item

Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Lenihan, J M A

19 Jul 1939

[Side 1] John and Willie recall John's prowess as an athlete, description of winning 220 yard sprint at Powderhall. [Side 2] Leslie and Jimmy review local football team's prospects for forthcoming sea...

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Archive Print Item

Archive Print Item

Certain noble plays of Japan

Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco (1853-1908); Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)

1971

Facsimile reprint; originally published: Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1916.

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Plays modelled on the Noh (1916)

Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Gallup, Donald Clifford (1913-2000)

1987

"Edition of five hundred copies"--T.p. verso.

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Wallops (Nine-Pins)
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Wallops (Nine-Pins)

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June-August 1964

Wooden skittles used in wallops, or nine-pins, knocked down in the road at Castle Bolton ( Wensleydale). Chalk markings can be seen where the skittles should stand. The game is played by throwing a st...

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Knur and Spell: Equipment
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Knur and Spell: Equipment

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1967

The spell of a knur and spell game, Langthwaite ( Arkengarthdale). The spell consists of a strong steel spring, often fixed to a piece of boarding (as pictured), which would be used to throw the knur ...

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Knur and Spell: Equipment
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Knur and Spell: Equipment

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1967

The spell of a knur and spell game, Langthwaite ( Arkengarthdale). The spell consists of a strong steel spring, often fixed to a piece of boarding (as pictured), which would be used to throw the knur ...

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Knur and Spell: Equipment
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Knur and Spell: Equipment

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1967

Knur and spell equipment, Langthwaite ( Arkengarthdale). The spell consists of a strong steel spring, often fixed to a piece of boarding (unlike the spell pictured), which would be used to throw the k...

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Tipcat (Game)
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Tipcat (Game)

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

August 1967

Mr. John Tom Rutter playing tipcat, or catty, in the garden of his home, Gunnerside ( Swaledale). The game is played with a small stick, sharpened at both ends like a pencil. The stick is placed on th...

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Tipcat (Game)
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Tipcat (Game)

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

August 1967

Mr. John Tom Rutter playing tipcat, or catty, in the garden of his home, Gunnerside ( Swaledale). The game is played with a small stick, sharpened at both ends like a pencil. The stick is placed on th...

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Tipcat (Game)
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Tipcat (Game)

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

August 1967

Mr. John Tom Rutter playing tipcat, or catty, in the garden of his home, Gunnerside ( Swaledale). The game is played with a small stick, sharpened at both ends like a pencil. The stick is placed on th...

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Tipcat (Game)
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Tipcat (Game)

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

August 1967

Mr. John Tom Rutter playing tipcat, or catty, in the garden of his home, Gunnerside ( Swaledale). The game is played with a small stick, sharpened at both ends like a pencil. The stick is placed on th...

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