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well-being15
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manners and customs10
nature10
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community life9
culture7
persons7
social life and customs7
traditional medicine7

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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)2
Ronnie, Mr2
Brook, Josephine1
Burton, Julia Sarah1
Casbon, Herbert1
Chapman, George Fletcher1
Daley, Janice1
Davenport, H1
Dixon, Beverley Anne1
Edge, Christine1

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Five Aspects of Woman in North-West Galician Rural Society

Davenport, H

1975

M.A. thesis (School of Special Studies in Spanish) on certain roles of the woman within rural society in the north-west region of Galicia. Chapters cover the physical geographical and social condition...

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Fleams

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

[1960s]

Five sets of fleams for bleeding horses, collected by Mr. Ronnie of Leyburn ( Wensleydale) in Swaledale. Each set of fleams has between two and five blades. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0...

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Informant with Fleams
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Informant with Fleams

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

[1960s]

Informant Mr. Ronnie of Leyburn ( Wensleydale), holding a set of fleams for bleeding horses found in Swaledale. Each set of fleams has five blades. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0511. With...

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Lore and Legend of the Western Fen Borderland

Toffler, Lenora Clare

1967

A study of the folklore of eleven informants living in villages to the north of Peterborough ( Crowland, Helpston, Whittlesey, Glinton and Maxey). The study comprises five chapters, with the first pre...

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Folk Medicine

Brook, Josephine

1964

A collection of traditional remedies gathered in a survey of five people living in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. The remedies are arranged in four chapters, the first concerning prevention (use of onions...

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North-West Shropshire: Agricultural Custom and Belief

Burton, Julia Sarah

1974

A study of agricultural custom and belief in Shropshire, based on interviews with seven informants (including members of the collector's family), and information in local magazines and a mid-nineteent...

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An Examination of the Trials of the Lancashire Witches 1612

Daley, Janice

1976

A study divided into five chapters. The first describes the continental influence on witch beliefs in England, with sections on scepticism and the Scriptures, the influence of James I, and the social ...

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Popular Belief in Leicester

Edge, Christine

1965

A study of the folklore of people living in Leicester, based on interviews with friends, acquaintances and other informants, including residents of a local Old Peoples' Home. The study contains six ch...

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Sheep Farming in Eskdale, Cumberland

Harrison, Keith

1966

A thesis which concentrates on aspects of sheep farming in Eskdale, with particular reference to one farming family in the area. Fieldwork was carried out between 1965 and 1966.

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Some Aspects of Folk Life in Whitehaven

Graham, Jacqueline P

1980

A study of folk life in Whitehaven, based on information gathered from the collector's grandparents, visitors to their house and other family members, and covering roughly the seventy year period 1910...

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Lowry's Town has Gone

Dixon, Beverley Anne

1980

A study of Salford, comprising six chapters. The introductory chapter includes quotations from the artist L. S. Lowry, and comments by others on his representation of people and place. The second chap...

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Farming Past and Present: A Study Based in the Village of Terrington St. John and the Surrounding Areas of the Fens of North West Norfolk

Pearson, Margaret Frances

1977

A study of the farming community of Terrington St. John in Norfolk, based largely on fieldwork interviews with local people. The study comprises nine chapters. The first presents a profile of the vill...

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