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nature11
community life10
culture10
occupations10
animals9
agriculture6
transportation6
manners and customs5
education4
folklore4

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Adcock, Mr1
Bennett, Basil1
Bull, Mrs. Walter1
Bull, Walter1
Bulmer, A Gillian1
Bury, Jack1
Croot, Mrs Oscar1
Croot, Oscar1
Dunn, Ginette1
Edge, Christine1

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Sound Recordings, Stockton-on-Tees

Schrut, Judith Lynne

23 January 1977

Margaret Postgate, Trevor Postgate and George Robinson (all of Thornaby) discuss domestic crafts - dressmaking, sewing, knitting, quilt-making, embroidery, enamelling, horticulture, bee-keeping. [Tr. ...

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Christmas Traditions

1964-1972

This file contains items relating to Christmas traditions, and includes two photocopies of the section on Christmas (including Christmas Eve, games, mumming, Christmas Day, carols, decorations, food, ...

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Clothing and Footwear - General

1966-1971

This file contains items relating to clothing and footwear in general, and includes a photocopy of the section on clothing from a chapter on material culture, explaining aspects to consider when resea...

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Sound Recording, Leicester

Edge, Christine

1965

Various informants talk of Cat Anna ( Leicester woman regarded as a witch), a secret tunnel used by Lady Jane Grey, Leicester Castle, witch burnings, divination (future husband, sex of unborn baby); C...

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Forestry

1969-1971

This subseries, comprising one file only, includes Oliver Rackham's article on the ancient woodlands of East Anglia, extracted from 'Country Life' (21 October 1971), pp. 1062-1066; William Seymour's a...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Reed [location not given] talks about his family; farming for 54 years; ploughing with horses; his role as Church Warden and the role of the Church Council; reference to Lord Sidmouth and Lady Sid...

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Sound Recordings, Warwickshire

Wharton, Colin S

1967-1968

Jack Bury, recorded in Winderton; talks about harvesting methods - fagging, tying sheaves and leaving to stand for three bells (i.e. three Sundays); discusses a ?sheppick (hay fork); labour force on t...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

2 October 1974

Basil Bennett, recorded at home in Snape; talks about learning songs whilst in the Army and the Navy - 'I'm in Love with Two Sweethearts' and 'Farewell My Own True Love'; his and other people's repert...

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Sound Recordings, Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Bulmer, A Gillian

[1974-1980]

Copy tape of fieldwork recordings. The original recordings were made in April 1974. The date when this copy tape was made is not known. [Collector announcement]; Harry Williams, recorded in Longtown...

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Sound Recordings, Shropshire

Hubbard, Wendy E

October-November 1958

[Collector announcement]; William Moore, [?recorded in Albrighton (Shropshire)], talks about his father's haulage business; harvesting; the weather; his father; a motorbike; an anecdote about retrievi...

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H

1960-1961

Oscar Croot and Mrs. Oscar Croot, recorded in Riseley in 1960; Mr. Croot describes making leaded windows - transporting and fitting, geographical area covered, costs and estimates of work; describes t...

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