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Total number of records: 1067

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Archives661
Books and printed items405
Objects1

Count of Collection group

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture651
Cookery Collection382
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive11
Brotherton Collection1
English Literature1
Herbert Read Collection1
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1
Leeds Russian Archive1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
food1067
occupations477
culture357
community life351
agriculture348
implements, utensils etc309
food crops301
nature274
english language - dialects264
animals237

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London, United Kingdom7
England5
Great Britain5
Italy3
France2
Europa1
Greece1
Hunza1
Pennine Chain (England)1
Prades, France1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)252
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)66
Scott, Mrs M. E.64
Fothergill, George William48
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)27
Upton, Clive S27
Dunn, Ginette24
Raw, David23
Barry, Michael V (1935-)21
Fothergill, Mrs14

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Vegetable substances used for the food of man

Knight, Charles (1791-1873); Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

1832

Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

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Sound Recordings, Lancashire

Calvert, Valerie E; Vickers, Emma

April 1961

Emma Vickers of Burscough talks about Burscough Fair; fortune telling with tea leaves and playing cards; good/bad luck - wedding cake, bouquets; Halloween parties at home - games; New Year traditions ...

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Food in history

Tannahill, Reay; Wilson, C Anne

1973

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-414) and index.

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Sound Recordings, Liverpool, Manchester and Preston

Calvert, Valerie E

April 1961

Peggy Meek describes egg customs - conkering, displaying decorated eggs, egg rolling on Easter Monday, ingredients for decorating eggs [informant is Secretary of the Cumberland and Westmorland Benevol...

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Decorated Egg

[1960s]

A hard-boiled, decorated egg, coloured with a food-based(?) red/pink dye. The shell is patterned with stencils made from small fern leaves and wild flowers.

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Commentario de le più notabili et mostruose cose d’Italia et altri luoghi, di lingua Aramea in Italiana tradotto. Con un breve catalogo de gli inventori de le cose che si mangiano et beveno, novamente ritrovato

Landi Ortensio (1512-1553); Da Cloch Baron; Salvatori, Maria Paola Moroni

1553

First item in bound volume of 2 items. A commentary on the most notable and monstrous things in Italy and other places, translated from the Aramean language into Italian. With a short catalogue of the...

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Sound Recording, [Norway]

Calvert, Valerie E

1961

[Announcement: results of a questionnaire issued by the Norsk Ethnological Institute]; male discusses Easter food and eggs in Norway - relates findings of survey - customary practices, egg consumption...

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Traditional food east and west of the Pennines

Brears, Peter C D; Wilson, C Anne; Hunter, Lynette; Pollard Helen; Stead, Jennifer

1994

"First published in 1991 by Edinburgh University Press"--Title page verso. "Based on papers from The Third Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions, April 1988, with additional chapters. This i...

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SED Word Map: To Brew Tea
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SED Word Map: To Brew Tea

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1950s-1960s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.8.9, to Brew Tea, mapping responses Mas(k), Mash, Wet, and Soak. The map was created by Harold Orton.

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Sound Recordings, Liverpool

Bond, Francis Keith

1973-1974

Interviews with Henry Glover of Melling [Tr. 4], and the grandparents of the collector, Mary Bickerstaffe and Robert Bickerstaffe [Tr. 5], resident in the Page Moss area of Liverpool. All discuss thei...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Unidentified female talks about her experience of living in Liverpool during World War Two - air raid shelters, songs at school, gas masks, dockers' reminiscences, rationing, wartime spirit, life at s...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Unidentified male informant talks about Army life during World War Two, rationing, and relates various humorous anecdotes. [Tr. 3] René Bond talks about her experience as a fourteen year old living...

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