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Total number of records: 398

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives345
Books and printed items52
Objects1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture335
Brotherton Collection15
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive10
Cookery Collection9
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society4
Leeds Russian Archive3
Herbert Read Collection1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1
Ripon Cathedral1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
holidays371
manners and customs337
culture284
rites and ceremonies219
community life178
english language - dialects175
social life and customs142
folk music121
food103
occupations102

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain22
Boulogne, France2
China2
Dover, United Kingdom2
France2
Barcelona, Spain1
Bedford, United Kingdom1
Calais, France1
Croagnes, France1
Florence, Italy1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Harrop, Peter K34
Chambers, Robert13
Chambers, Robert (1802-1871)13
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)11
Caunce, Stephen10
Russell, Ian10
Harris, Susan9
Pattison, Susan9
Sullivan, Keith Frederick8
Brand, John (1744-1806)7

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 15001
From 17001
From 180027
From 1900367

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 15991
Up to 17991
Up to 189927
Up to 1999364
Up to latest3

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A treasury of Jewish holidays; history, legends, traditions

Goldin, Hyman E (1881-); Goldin, Hyman E (1881-)

[1952]

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Travel documents for Spain and Portugal

Aug 1959

Travel documents for Spain and Portugal housed in a blue card folder from Poly Travel Ltd. Includes tickets and receipts from Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon and Zaragoza [Saragossa].

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Photograph of Torbay Hotel

c. 1870

Undated mounted photograph of Torbay Hotel in Torquay by Carl Norman.

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Swedish holidays and annual festivals

Rehnberg, Mats Erik Adolf (1915-); Svenska institutet för kulturellt utbyte med utlandet

[1969?]

Article dated 1964; date on back cover 1969.

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Ha-maḥzor ke-minhag Kafa', toldotaiv ve-hitpathuto : (seḳirah sifrutit-historit)

Bernstein, Simon Gerson (1884-)

[5]718 [1958]

"Tadpis mi-sefer ha-yovel likhvod Shemu'el K. Mirski".

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Programme for an organ concert

13 Aug 1969

Copy of a typewritten programme for a concert of organ music at the Eglise de Saint-Saturnin-Lès-Apt on 13 August 1969.

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Letter from Henrietta [illegible] to Jane and Maurice de Sausmarez

7 Aug 1966

Handwritten letter from Letter from Henrietta [illegible] to Jane and Maurice de Sausmarez, noting that she was back in England and describing a boat journey, household tasks and the weather. She than...

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V Velikobritanii prin︠i︡ato tak : ob angliĭskikh obycha︠i︡akh

Khimunina, T N; Uolsh, I A; Konon, N V

1975

Cover and spine title: Customs, traditions and festivals of Great Britain.

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May Day 1936 : souvenir programme

All-London First of May Demonstration Committee

[1936]

Cover title.

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