Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 6 of 6 records

Total number of records: 6

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
community life6
manners and customs6
occupations6
rites and ceremonies6
agriculture5
play5
culture4
holidays4
nature4
religion4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Tammivaara, Irmeli4
Pate, Allan2
Anderson, Joe1
Burgess, Stan1
Burton, Tom1
Chapman, James1
Cross, Miriam1
Dawson, Mary1
Ellington, Thomas1
Hard, May1

Archive Item

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...

More details


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 ...

More details


Archive Item

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...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1974

[Collector announcement]; Mary Dawson, recorded in Doddington on the 8 July 1974; recollects her childhood in Doddington; marriage; children; skating matches; changes to the village; trandling for bir...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June-July 1974

[Collector announcement]; George Warby and Olive Warby [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A667r], recorded in Elm on the 27 June 1974; talk about the Charity Dole for agricultural workers from Elm and Frid...

More details


Archive Item

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...

More details