Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 5 of 5 records

Total number of records: 5

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives4
Books and printed items1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
traditional medicine5
community life4
culture4
occupations4
well-being4
agriculture3
animals3
english language - dialects3
folklore3
food3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Wright, John T2
Bachelor, Danny1
Bradley, Mr1
Bury, Jack1
Ernest1
Kylstra, Henk E1
Luttman, Mark1
Orchard, Bill1
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)1
Packer, Ernie1

Archive Print Item

Surgery of the Stone Age : a ballad of Neolithic times : y T. Wilson Parry

Parry, T Wilson

1918

"Reprinted from the June, 1918, issue of the "St. George's Hospital gazette"".

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Warwickshire

Wharton, Colin S

1967

Danny Bachelor, recorded at home in Ratley, describes a plant remedy for shingles (used c. 1900); describes cattle cures; mesmerising chickens; breaking eggs; charming animals (horses); use of saltpet...

More details


Archive File

Horses, Cattle and Draft Animals

1960-1973

This file contains items on livestock, in particular cattle and horses. The focus is largely on the general care and management of cattle and horses, folklore relating to their care, medicine, dialect...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Wright, John T

24 November 1958

[Collector announcement]; William Rickards, recorded in Egloshayle; talks about farmwork on leaving school; wages; quarry work after World War One; working with his father in his flour mill, and then ...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1960

Ernest Packer, recorded in Ashton Keynes [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A796r]; talks about hedging and ditching, related terminology and tools used; his father's speech; the price of beer/ale; a brewe...

More details