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Total number of records: 10

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture9
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman1

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war10
community life9
culture6
occupations6
english language - dialects4
food4
manners and customs4
play4
history3
oral traditions3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Upton, Clive S2
Banks, William1
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Bateman, Mr Alf1
Bill1
British Broadcasting Corporation1
Brook, Ann1
Brothwell, William Richard1
Burnett, Bill1
Chamberlain, John S1

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Up to 19999
Up to latest1

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Sound Recording

British Broadcasting Corporation

[1972]

Radio programme [BBC Home Service 1960-05-28 17:00; Children's hour] on Captain Charles Towneley and his role in the English Civil War; hiding from Cromwell's men; death at the Battle of Marston Moor,...

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Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire

Chamberlain, John S

July/August 1961

Herbert Sykes of Wetwang relates items of weatherlore - rainbows, moon (and associated rhymes), wind direction, horses' behaviour/crows' behaviour (nesting) as signs of weather; Mrs. Sykes relates say...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

[1981]

[Announcement, ? by camera operator]; recording of a Committee meeting of the Leeds branch of the Air Gunners' Association, at the British Legion; and as part of filming for a film on British air gunn...

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Sound Recording, Derby

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

[Collector announcement]; Raymond Lindley and his wife [possibly recorded in Spondon, on the outskirts of Derby] give answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology assoc...

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(A2) Research and papers : 2002-2004 [with some 2015-2016]

c.1999 - 2016

Research material mainl;y from periods 2002-2004 and 2015-2016. Includes: Off prints of articles by various c. 1999- 2004; press release from Vatican; draft typescript "A suitable amount of crime" ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Cheichel, Edna

1970

Various informants recorded at Donisthorpe Hall Old People's Home in Leeds. Leizer Gold sings unidentified song; male sings unidentified song; male ( Rabbi Safer) relates an incident, and other inform...

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Sound Recordings, Herefordshire and Shropshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Unidentified butcher, recorded in his shop in Leominster; talks about delivering meat (carrying/taking orders); working hours; slaughtering; butchering career - working in Weobley (and Leominster sinc...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

17 March 1981

Interviews with four men regarding their experiences as Royal Air Force air gunners during World War Two. The interviews were recorded in the studio of Leeds University Television Service in Leeds. ...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Houck, Charles L

[Mid 1960s-1970s]

Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of...

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Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

[1967-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Lincolnshire locations 10L4-15. The original recordings were made in 1952, 1953, 1960 and 1967. The date when this copy tape...

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