Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 13 records

Total number of records: 13

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives10
Books and printed items3

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture10
Brotherton Collection3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
sports13
play10
culture9
occupations8
animals6
community life6
english language - dialects6
food6
games6
manners and customs6

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
White, John3
Wright, John T3
Bensley, Thomas2
Bensley, Thomas (1760-1835)2
Dunn, Ginette2
Kylstra, Henk E2
Orchard, Bill2
Smith, George2
Strutt, Joseph (1749-1802)2
Sullivan, Keith Frederick2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17001
From 18002
From 190010

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17991
Up to 18992
Up to 199910

Archive Print Item

The compleat gamester : in three parts. : Containing

Seymour, Richard Esq

1739

Signatures: A⁶ [-A1] B-O¹² P⁶. Contents: (from t.p.) I. The court gamester: or, full and easy instructions for playing the games of ombre, quadrille, quintille, piquet, basset, faro, and the r...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Lancashire

Bauldie, J S

1969

Interviews with ex-coalminers from Abram, Hindley, Ashton-in-Makerfield and Shevington. Topics covered include work and leisure activities: whippets; practical jokes; beliefs; games (including Piggy, ...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Whitney, Norman F

[1961/1962]

Male and female [?students] interview an unidentified blacksmith in Glaisdale; who describes making horseshoes and fitting a new shoe to a horse (shoeing); describes a horseshoe, and compares shoeing ...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, County Durham

Upton, Clive S; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

5 June 1974

[Announcement: Clive Upton]; Herbert Hodgson, recorded at home in Bishop Middleham; discusses with Harold Orton playing football for Bowburn ; attending Byers Green school from the age of five; discus...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

10 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; John White, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; sings fragment of 'Her Own Boy Jack'; talks about the game of quoits - trophies, league, weight of quoit, young players, rules and s...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 November 1977

Ugthorpe quoits team Quoits Supper, recorded at the Black Bull pub in Ugthorpe; includes jokes, monologues and song; anecdote re. two quoits players; the announcement of prize winners and presentation...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

James Knights, recorded at home in Little Glemham on the 14 October 1974; talks about Bob Hart; playing quoits; old songs and modern versions; remembering songs; 'Poacher's Song', 'Lancashire Poacher'...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

October 1974

Bessie Hammond, recorded at home in Blaxhall on the 2 October 1974; talks about where she learned the songs she sings - radio, singing at work; singing at an old people's club; learning songs at schoo...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Devon

Wright, John T

October 1958

[Announcement, ?by Tony Green]; Ernest Smythe, recorded in Parracombe; talks about working life on the railway (as office boy, timekeeper); gangs working on the line, and the difficulty of building it...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Hampshire and Wiltshire

Kylstra, Henk E; Wright, John T

1960-1961

William Blake, recorded in Hambledon by Henk Kylstra; talks about his work as a shepherd during the years 1919-1958; the village of Hambledon past and present; schooling; work as a shepherd boy on lea...

More details