Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 18 records

Total number of records: 18

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives16
Books and printed items2

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture12
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1
Liddle Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
education18
community life12
culture9
occupations8
agriculture7
english language - dialects7
folk music7
manners and customs7
animals6
nature6

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Pickering, Michael J2
Aldous, Leonard1
Anderson, Joe1
Barrett, Frank1
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Bourdieu, Pierre (1930-2002)1
Bragbrook, Walter1
Braybrook1
Brown, George1
Burnett, Bill1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 18001
From 190017

Archive Print Item

American higher education : the public school system in the United States (two addresses)

Hershey, Charlie Brown (1878-)

1931

Delivered during October and November, 1930.

More details


Archive File

Article "Success in Business"

1930

Extracted from the journal 'Everyman' (16 January, 1930), p. 699. Item 497 in Pickering. 1 p.

More details


Archive File

Article "Poetry for success in business"

1930

Extracted from the journal 'Everyman' (30 January, 1930), p. 5. Item 493 in Pickering. 1 p.

More details


Archive File

Printed pamphlet "The outlook in secondary education"

1930

"The second of a series of lectures under the provisions of the Julius and Rosa Sachs Endowment Fund delivered before the Faculty and students of Teachers College, Columbia University, March 26, 27 an...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)

[1960s]

James Knights of Woodbridge [?recorded in 1968] talks about his work with horses; as horse man; learning from the age of thirteen; working in Yorkshire; horses' stables; travelling a stallion; going t...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, Durham

Pickering, Michael J

5 April 1974

Professor Thomas Thacker, recorded at home in Durham; gives his recollections of Janet Bluntin the late 1920s/early 1930s; attitudes of villagers to her and vice versa; her family, folk song collectin...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September/October 1973

Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about Janet Blunt's folk song collecting, and people's perceptions of her in Adderbury; musical afternoons/evenings at her house; singing in the loca...

More details


Archive File

Traditional Fiddle Playing in West Clare: Junior Crehan and Michael Downes

Taylor, Barry Roy

1977

A study of the work of the Irish fiddle players, Junior Crehan and Michael Downes. The first of its nine sections presents a brief historical survey of Irish dance and its music; section two provides ...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, County Durham

Upton, Clive S

May 1974

[Collector announcement]; William Dodds, recorded at home in Ebchester on the 14 May 1974; examines and describes archaeological artefacts, excavated by him during the previous six years from the site...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Siporin, Rae Lee

[1965-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Staffordshire locations 12St5-10. The original recordings were made in 1955 and 1965. The date when this copy tape was made ...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire

Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1967

Edward Orton, recorded in Packington (Leicestershire); talks about building a haystack, and thatching it with wheat straw; farmhouses; curing bacon; livestock; selling land for housing; modern farming...

More details


Archive Sub-series

Fieldwork and Research

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1893-1974

The diffuse nature of the subject content of this subseries highlights Harold Orton's broad-ranging interest in language, language research and folk life, including in particular, phonetics ( Yorkshir...

More details