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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Erslev, Kristian Sofus August (1852-1930)2
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Brown, George1
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Archive File

Papers and letters of John Angus MacKinnon

MacKinnon, John Angus (1905-1981)

c.1930-c.1956

Miscellaneous papers relating mainly to MacKinnon's higher education at the University of Glasgow, and to teaching history, along with various letters to him, ca.1930-ca.1956

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The Kellet Manuscript

Kellet, G R

[1970s]

The first file contains a photocopy of a manuscript by G. R. Kellet, being a memoir of growing up in Hunslet, Leeds, in the 1920s and 1930s. Although biographical, the manuscript includes descriptions...

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Sound Recordings, Glamorgan and Monmouthshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

1965

Mrs. Forward, recorded in Cwmavon; talks about her son; the dole and Depression in the late 1920s/early 1930s; family; life in the valley; working at a furnace shovelling coal during World War One; hu...

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The Oral History and Traditions of the Lancashire Textile Workers

Taylor, Monica

1972

A study of some features of working, domestic and recreational life in the cotton town of Haslingden in Lancashire, in the early part of the twentieth century. The description of such aspects is based...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Cooke, Jane A

[1979-1980]

First part of this tape comprises a compilation of extracts from the collector's fieldwork recordings in Birdsedge (principally, clapping and skipping rhymes). [Tape labelled demonstration.] [Tr. 1] ...

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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 Recording, West Yorkshire

Cheichel, Edna

1970

Various informants recorded at Donisthorpe Hall Old People's Home in Leeds. Leizer Gold sings unidentified song; male sings unidentified song; male ( Rabbi Safer) relates an incident, and other inform...

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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, 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 ...

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Sound Recordings, Lancashire

Taylor, Monica

[1970-1972]

Female informant [possibly the collector's mother], recorded in Haslingden ; talks about and recites a poem with the first line, At number one Bolton yard; sings 'Where oh where is my Norah?' [first l...

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Books of notes taken by Maurice Warwick Beresford from lectures in history whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge, 1938-1941

Beresford, Maurice (1920-2005)

1938-1941

(1) Bernard Lord Manning annd Zachary Nugent Brooke on early medieval European history: session 1938-1939. ii, 97 ff. (2) Michael Mo?ssey Postan on medieval English economic history: session 1938-39. ...

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