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Total number of records: 42

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Archives39
Books and printed items3

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture39
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1

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architecture42
manners and customs42
buildings39
culture27
community life24
occupations24
religion21
nature18
agriculture16
human settlements16

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England2
London (England)2
Great Britain1

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Barry, Michael V (1935-)4
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3
Kylstra, Henk E3
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
J. Nichols and Son, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London2
Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme2
Malcolm, James Peller (1767-1815)2
Maynard, George (1900-1900)2
Orchard, Bill2
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)2

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Church Tower
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Church Tower

[1970s]

Church tower at an unidentified (English) location.

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House in Knaresborough
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House in Knaresborough

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1962

View over the River Nidd of houses in Knaresborough (North Yorkshire). The view includes a brightly decorated house with a black and white check pattern on the gable end.

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Vicarage, Västra Tunhem
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Vicarage, Västra Tunhem

April 1965

The Vicarage at Prästgården, Västra Tunhem (Sweden). The building is timber with plank dressing. A note in the Slide Index suggests that Västra Tunhem is in Västergotland, but the town is liste...

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The Mantelpiece

Cane, Rosemary

1971

A dissertation examining the question of what some people keep on their mantelpieces - which objects are placed there, and why - and to what extent the owners are conscious of the mantelpiece as a fea...

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Druids-as-Wished-For

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1976

Offprint/extract from 'To Illustrate the Monuments: Essays in Archaeology Presented to Stuart Piggott on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday', edited by J. V. S. Megaw (London: Thames Hudson, 1976). San...

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Thorpe Chapel
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Thorpe Chapel

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1965

The chapel at Thorpe ( Wharfedale). The building includes a dovecote on the gable end.

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Gol Stave Church
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Gol Stave Church

March 1965

Wooden stave church from Gol, at the Norsk Folkemuseum (Norwegian Folk Museum) in Bygdøy, Oslo. The name Stave refers to the wooden posts, or staves, that support the roof. The interior is medieval, ...

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Medieval Church, Uppland
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Medieval Church, Uppland

January 1965

View of a medieval wooden church at Uppland (Uppsala Lan, Sweden).

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Stained Glass Window
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Stained Glass Window

[1970s]

Stained glass window in a church at an unidentified location, viewed from the interior of the church. The centre panel shows the Crucifixion.

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Quaker Meeting House
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Quaker Meeting House

[1960s]

Board-mounted photograph of the Quaker Meeting House in Countersett ( Wensleydale). The meeting house is stone-built, and appears to have a barn attached. It abuts a field in which sheep are grazing. ...

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Old Rectory, Mirfield

[1960s]

Board-mounted photograph of the front of the Old Rectory at Mirfield (West Yorkshire). The building is half-timbered and dates from the early 14th-century.

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Old Rectory, Mirfield

[1960s]

Board-mounted photograph of close-up detail of the timber framing of the Old Rectory at Mirfield (West Yorkshire). The building is half-timbered and dates from the early 14th-century.

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