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Total number of records: 18

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Archives14
Books and printed items4

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture14
Brotherton Collection2

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agriculture18
occupations14
community life13
nature13
food10
manners and customs10
animals8
culture8
education8
food crops8

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Tammivaara, Irmeli7
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Bill2
Pate, Allan2
Powell, Herbert Thomas2
Tall, William2
Warby, George2
Warby, Olive2
Agricultural Protection Society1
Anderson, Joe1

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

[Collector announcement]; May Hard, recorded in Pymore on 13 June 1974; talks about her father's job as a blacksmith, shoes for horses and donkeys, cart repairs, making harrows, repairing/sharpening p...

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Archive File

Sky and Weather

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains items relating to weatherlore, including an ms. paper compiled by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivist Margaret Jackson, containing weatherlore, with bibliog...

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Tracts issued by the Agricultural Protection Society : up to August, 1844

Agricultural Protection Society

[1844]

A collection of pamphlets originally published separately by other publishers, reissued with a general title-page. Imprint varies. Contents: 1. Mr. Cayley's "Reasons for the formation of the Agric...

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Archive File

Calendar Days

1964-1972

This file contains items on calendar customs, including Valentine's Day. This includes a photocopy of typed extracts on local customs from essays on old Mansfield, written for a competition organised ...

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The farmer in war-time (v.1-2)

Orwin, C S (1876-1955)

[1915]

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Labour looking after agriculture : better farming, better business, better living

Noel-Buxton, Noel Noel-Buxton Baron (1869-1948); Labour Party (Great Britain)

[1924]

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Sound Recording, Somerset

Ihalainen, Ossi

July 1972

Jack Spencer, recorded at home in Westhay on 15 July 1972; describes haymaking, including raking, work breaks, harnessing horses, loading waggons, drink, rick making, dinner time, food, tea, evening w...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Etheldrida Thompson, recorded in Witchford on the 14 July 1975; gives biographical details; employment as a nurse housemaid in Cambridge; parlour maid in Peterborough; [colle...

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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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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1974

[Collector announcement]; Allan Pate, recorded in Witcham on the 11 July 1974 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A670r]; talks about Witcham Feast Week in November; local stories/beliefs associated with wi...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Alice Baker, recorded at Pymore on the 17 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A673r]; talks about March dust storms; floods of 1912 and 1950s; the condition of local (dro...

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