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Total number of records: 103

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Archives102
Objects1

Top 10: Subject

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food103
holidays103
manners and customs103
community life87
culture85
social life and customs67
occupations62
rites and ceremonies56
nature48
folk music43

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)8
Calvert, Valerie E7
Pasanen, Leena6
Crook, Rosemary4
Stigell, Ossi4
Wright, John T4
Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)3
Morris, Patricia M3
Panheinen, Ossi3
Tammivaara, Irmeli3

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

[Collector announcement]; Charles Brown, recorded in Stoke-on-Trent; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions ...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)

[1960s]

James Knights of Woodbridge [?recorded in 1968] talks about Suffolk and Norfolk men taking seasonal jobs in Burton upon Trent, in October after the harvest; describes work and conditions in the maltho...

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Sound Recording, [Norway]

Calvert, Valerie E

1961

[Announcement: results of a questionnaire issued by the Norsk Ethnological Institute]; male discusses Easter food and eggs in Norway - relates findings of survey - customary practices, egg consumption...

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Some Aspects of Mothering Sunday (With Particular Reference to Nottingham)

Warren, Vivien P.

1966

A study of Mothering Sunday, with particular reference to its observance in Nottinghamshire. Chapter One covers the origins, growth, partial extinction and revival of the custom, with reference to Con...

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Sound Recordings, [Devon]

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Collins [location not given] talks about flour milling; flour mill and working conditions; milling machinery and processes; cider; wages and working conditions; wages on leaving school; Christmas;...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Tom Bradley, recorded in Gargrave; talks about his working life, including carting, farming, carding (mill), canal (horsework); working with his father; home made wine; pig scraping; canal work - haul...

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Decorated Egg

[1960s]

A hard-boiled, decorated egg, coloured with a food-based(?) red/pink dye. The shell is patterned with stencils made from small fern leaves and wild flowers.

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A Study of Yorkshire Parkin and Gingerbread

Marsh, Patricia

1971

A dissertation comprising four chapters. The first outlines the Yorkshire housekeeping tradition, especially as related to parkin and gingerbread, and includes recipes for wines and punches suitable f...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian; Howarth, Leslie

8 May 1973

Jack White and Mrs. Jack White in conversation at their home in the Stannington area of Sheffield. Talk of family members; informant's birthplace; Castleton Wakes; haytime; schooling at Lydgate in She...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; Mrs. Weatherill and daughter Linda, recorded at home in Ainthorpe. Mrs. W. sings 'My Grandfather's Clock', 'Farmer's Boy' and one verse of 'Springtime in the Rockies'; talks ...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

Ruby Ling, recorded at home in Snape on the 11 September 1974; talks about her father working as a tenant farmer on the Wentworth Estate at Aldeburgh; Sunday School treat (tea at the mansion on the es...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)

[1960s]

James Knights of Woodbridge [?recorded in 1968] talks about his work with horses; as horse man; learning from the age of thirteen; working in Yorkshire; horses' stables; travelling a stallion; going t...

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