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Total number of records: 23

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Brotherton Collection13
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture10

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holidays23
anecdotes13
days13
fasts and feasts13
culture10
manners and customs10
english language - dialects9
community life7
social life and customs7
folk music6

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Chambers, Robert13
Chambers, Robert (1802-1871)13
Pickering, Michael J2
Swan, Nigel T2
Drury, Susan1
Fowler, Wilelmine M E1
Greenwood, Harry1
Hitchman, Fanny1
Mason, Mr1
Revitt, Col1

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Archive File

The Fowler Manuscript

Fowler, Wilelmine M E

[1960s-1970s]

Bound photocopy of Wilelmine Fowler's manuscript, 'Yorkshire Sayings and Superstitions Collected in the Neighbourhood of Wakefield' ( ca. 1890s). Fowler intended the manuscript for publication in the ...

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The Greenwood Manuscript

Greenwood, Harry

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of a manuscript compiled by Harry Greenwood of Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, being memoirs of local life and traditions prior to World War Two. The manuscript appears to ...

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The Courtney Manuscript and Related Papers

1973-1974

This file contains papers relating to the republication of Margaret Courtney's 'Cornish Feasts and Folklore' (originally published Penzance: Beare, 1890). Tony Green, lecturer at the Institute of Dial...

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