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Total number of records: 12

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Archives11
Books and printed items1

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture7
Brotherton Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
education12
community life7
culture6
associations, institutions, etc5
english language - dialects5
folk music4
folklore4
manners and customs4
public buildings4
social life and customs4

Top 10: People and organisations

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Bergal, Nancy Ann2
Bradford (England). City Council1
Bradford and District Teachers' Association1
Brooksbank, Irvine1
Collins, J M Mrs1
Curtin, John1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Garvey, Billy1
Hubbard, Wendy E1
Lishman, Richard1

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From 18001
From 190011

Archive File

Memorandum "University relations between Leeds and Bradford"

1913

Dated 8th November 1913 2pp Marked as “highly confidential - for the members of the University Council and Senate” and signed ‘MES’

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Memorandum "University relations between Leeds and Bradford"

1913

Read before the special meeting of the Senate held on November 10th 1913 to consider the future university relations between Leeds and Bradford and dated 10th November 1913 7pp Marked as "highly confi...

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Memorandum "University relations between Leeds and Bradford - A Memorandum by Professor W Rhys Roberts"

1913

Dated 11th November 1913 4pp marked as "highly confidential - for the members of the University Council and Senate” and signed ‘WRR’

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Bergal, Nancy Ann

25 January 1980

Recorded in John Curtin's home in Leeds, and at the Grove Folk Club (also in Leeds). John Curtin sings an unidentified song, with guitar accompaniment; and tells a story of catching wild boar in Bradf...

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Archive Sub-series

Towns

1968-1979

This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to aspects of towns and town life. This includes Stella Margetson's article on Victorian pantomime, focussing on London theatres,...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Northumberland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1950s]

Irvine Brooksbank, recorded in Thornton in May 1957; talks about the house in which he was born; working as a farm lad scaring birds; the farmer he worked for; local quarries and his father book keepi...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Bergal, Nancy Ann

27 January 1980

Peter Thorp, recorded at home in Leeds; talks about his interest in folk music; carol singing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day morning in Leeds - tradition declined due to slum clearances, break up ...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September/October 1973

Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about Janet Blunt's folk song collecting, and people's perceptions of her in Adderbury; musical afternoons/evenings at her house; singing in the loca...

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Archive Print Item

The mystery of the '£100'

Lishman, Richard

[ca. 1891?]

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An Investigation into the Play of Children Living in a Traditionally Working Class Area of Back-to-Back Housing Property, in Leeds, in May and June, 1962

Collins, J M Mrs; McKelvie, Donald

1962

A study of schoolchildren at play in Leeds, combining researches in education and folk life by two postgraduate students at the University of Leeds. Mrs. Collins was taking a Diploma in Curricular Stu...

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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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