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Total number of records: 8

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture7
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
health8
well-being7
community life6
occupations6
culture5
manners and customs5
social life and customs5
english language - dialects4
folk music4
mines and mineral resources4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Aldous, Leonard1
Bbc1
Brown, George1
Bryon, Fiona1
Carter, Lindsay1
Dixon, Beverley Anne1
Dodds, William1
Goddard, Mr1
Hart, William1
Parker, Charles (1919-1980)1

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Reports from Christ's Hospital

1927-1932

Reports from Christ's Hospital in Horsham, Sussex, which Maurice de Sausmarez attended from 1926 to 1932. Includes reports for the terms ending: 7 April 1927; 26 July 1927; 21 December 1927; 4 April 1...

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Lowry's Town has Gone

Dixon, Beverley Anne

1980

A study of Salford, comprising six chapters. The introductory chapter includes quotations from the artist L. S. Lowry, and comments by others on his representation of people and place. The second chap...

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Sound Recordings, Northumberland, Durham, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire and South Wales

BBC; Parker, Charles (1919-1980)

[1950s]

'The Big Hewer', the fourth of eight radio ballads transmitted by the BBC Home Service between July 1958 and April 1964. This programme was produced by Charles Parker, written by Ewan MacColl and Pegg...

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Sound Recording, British Columbia (Canada)

Smith, Peter

7 January 1977

Lindsay Carter, recorded in New Denver [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A865]; talks about working in a silver mine in Sandon, 4000 feet below ground; describes the mine, mining machinery, the placing of...

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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...

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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

10 Jun 1980 - 15 Dec 1980

Jim Roche [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A087] talks about his Trade Union involvement as a Shop Steward in the Leeds clothing industry: industrial and social problems of members; church involvement in...

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Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

7 February 1976

[Collector announcement]; William Hart, recorded at home in Wilton ; sings 'Out in the Wild World'; talks about his father and his employment on local farms and ironstone mines, his death in 1930; WH ...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Pasanen, Leena

August 1971

[Collector announcement]; Mr. Goddard, recorded at home in Helmingham on the 13 August 1971; talks about his experience of World War One in France (1914-1916); joining an Indian division attached to a...

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