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culture49
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Dunn, Ginette9
Tammivaara, Irmeli7
Barry, Michael V (1935-)6
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)6
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Panheinen, Ossi5
Holy Jim4
Jimmy4
Knights, James (1880-1880)4
Kylstra, Henk E4
Harvest Supper Setting
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Harvest Supper Setting

[1960s]

Display showing a room decorated for a Wolds harvest supper, at an unidentified Yorkshire museum. The scene shows a long table and benches set for at least twelve people, with candles, jugs, bread, pi...

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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 Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

June 1975

Ruby Ling, recorded at Snape Old Folks' Club, sings 'Wheel Your P'rambulator'; Bob Hart sings 'Why Shouldn't We Sing?'; all sing a hymn, 'Father, Hear the Prayer We Offer'. Recorded on 19 June 1975. [...

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Dialect recording in Morebattle, Roxburghshire

Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956); Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

23 Aug 1939

[Side 1] Mr Currie tells an anecdote about a minister seeking selection for the local kirk, general discussion of local flower show, leeks, barley soups, scabious. [Side 2] Mr Currie recites the story...

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Corn Dollies

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

[1960s]

Contact print strip with images of corn dollies on display in a church, at an unidentified location (probably in the Yorkshire Dales). The images include a star-shaped corn dolly, and a corn dolly in ...

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Corn Dollies
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Corn Dollies

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

[1960s]

Contact print strip with images of corn dollies on display in a church, at an unidentified location (probably in the Yorkshire Dales). The images show different types of elaborately woven corn dolly, ...

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Corn Dollies
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Corn Dollies

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

[1960s]

Contact print strip with images of corn dollies on display in a church, at an unidentified location (probably in the Yorkshire Dales). The images show different types of elaborately woven corn dolly. ...

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Corn Dollies
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Corn Dollies

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

[1960s]

Contact print strip with images of corn dollies on display in a church, at an unidentified location (probably in the Yorkshire Dales). The images show a corn dolly which appears to be in the shape of ...

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Corn Dollies

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

[1960s]

Contact print strip with three images of corn dollies on display in a church, at an unidentified location (probably in the Yorkshire Dales), and one image of a male weaving a corn dolly. The corn doll...

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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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Plant Lore

1961-1980

This file includes an ms. letter from Gillian Bulmer to Stewart Sanderson on names of apples (12 November 1975); a photocopy of Grace Pleasant Wellborn's paper on plantlore in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'T...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

James Knights, recorded at home in Little Glemham on the 14 October 1974; talks about Bob Hart; playing quoits; old songs and modern versions; remembering songs; 'Poacher's Song', 'Lancashire Poacher'...

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