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Total number of records: 87

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Archives85
Books and printed items2

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture84
Cookery Collection2
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1

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meat87
food86
occupations64
culture45
nature45
animals42
community life39
food industry and trade39
english language - dialects36
implements, utensils etc27

Top 10: People and organisations

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Upton, Clive S26
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)14
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)13
Kylstra, Henk E5
Wright, John T5
Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy4
John4
Lynas, Jack4
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)4
Barry, Michael V (1935-)3

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The microbiology of fish and meat curing brines : proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Food Microbiology, held at Cambridge (United Kingdom) in April, 1957

Eddy, B P; Great Britain. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; Low Temperature Research Station (Great Britain)

1958

Organized by the Low Temperature Research Station, University of Cambridge, and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

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Sound Recordings, Herefordshire and Shropshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Unidentified butcher, recorded in his shop in Leominster; talks about delivering meat (carrying/taking orders); working hours; slaughtering; butchering career - working in Weobley (and Leominster sinc...

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Hill, Betsy to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

4 Dec 1846

Handwritten letter from Betsy Hill to Mary Cowden Clarke, describing how to store a cut of bacon and discussing other domestic matters.

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Butchering Questionnaire

Upton, Clive S

1974

This file contains a fieldwork questionnaire designed to elicit information about the working practices and terminology used by people connected with the meat trade. The responses collected provided d...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Collector's father gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to beef, lamb, pork and poultry, and the an...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Male informant gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to beef, lamb, pork and poultry, and the answer...

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Sound Recording, Gloucestershire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Gerald Clifton, recorded in Moreton-in-Marsh; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to beef, lamb, p...

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Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and the West Midlands

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Gerald Clifton, recorded in Moreton-in-Marsh [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A715r]; talks about the displaying of meat in a butcher's shop; shop fixtures and fittings; the refrigeration of meat; butche...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Collector's father talks about the names given to people involved in the butchering and meat trade; and explains the butchers' use of back slang (a form of communication between butchers and their sta...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Male informant [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A542r] relates terminology associated with meat curing, the contamination of meat and the types of pest, vehicles used by butchers/meat traders, the names ...

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Ivy Simmons/? Ivy Simmonds, recorded with her husband [?at home in Tamworth]. Conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A545r, concerning the language of the meat trade. Informant gives th...

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