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Total number of records: 14

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Record type	Count
Archives	8
Books and printed items	6

Count of Collection group

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	8
Brotherton Collection	4
Liddle Collection	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
hunting	14
occupations	8
community life	6
food	6
agriculture	5
animals	5
brewing	5
nature	5
beverages	4
culture	4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Dixon, William Scarth	2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)	2
'Dusty'	1
Baldwin, John R	1
Banks, William	1
Barry, Michael V (1935-)	1
Bateman, Mr Alf	1
Berners, Juliana (1388-)	1
Bill	1
Blades, William	1

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From 1800	4
From 1900	10

Count of Latest date

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Up to 1899	4
Up to 1999	10

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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 ...

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Sound Recordings, East Sussex, Somerset, [Devon] and Kent

[1950s]

Compilation of extracts copied from Survey of English Dialects field recordings made in the south of England. The first extract is from an interview with Harry Burghess [Burgess], made by Michael B...

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Sound Recordings, Dorset

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Studley of Broadwindsor talks about the history of his family's farm; type of farming; livestock; recollections of farm work when a child; harvest time and the custom of making sweet hay; haymakin...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire

Baldwin, John R

1969

Mrs. I. M. Brown and Mrs. Cotmore [?sisters], recorded in Oxford in 1969. Recitation of the words to 'I had a Little Donkey', and the monologues 'Sally and Her Sweetheart', and 'Little Boy and the Err...

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The boke of Saint Albans

Berners, Juliana (1388-); Blades, William (1824-1890)

1901

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Gunners, game & gardens : an autobiography

Harrison, Eric George William Warde (1893-)

1978

Includes index.

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Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

[1967-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Lincolnshire locations 10L4-15. The original recordings were made in 1952, 1953, 1960 and 1967. The date when this copy tape...

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Sound Recording, Devon

Read, John (1884-1963)

8 July 1958

[John Read announcement]; John Read, recorded at the home of his friend, Victor Bonham-Carter, in East Anstey, giving his recollections of country life and the dialect in south-eastern Somerset. Talks...

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