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Archive Print Item

Archive Print Item

An elegant, and learned discourse of the light of nature : with several other treatises, viz. The schism, The act of oblivion, The child's return, Mount Ebal, The white stone, Spiritual opticks, The worth of souls

Culverwel, Nathanael (1651); Dillingham, William (1617?-1689)

1661

"Spiritual opticks: or, A glasse discovering the weakness and imperfection of a Christians knowledge in this life" has special t.p. with imprint: London, Printed by E.M., 1661.

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

12 December 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about singing in the village pub, including on Christmas Eve; the disallowing of singing in pubs, especially in Scarboro...

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Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Christopher Haddock [ Albert Haddock's brother] and Elsie Haddock, recorded at Sutton Gault on the 22 July 1975; talk about wild mushrooms and mushroom picking; mushroom ketc...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

Miriam Cross, recorded at home in Prickwillow on 10 June 1974; talks about her childhood home in the village; parents (farmers); baking using a brick oven; jam making; pig killing; describes the Fen r...

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Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Cheshire

Siporin, Rae Lee

May 1965

[Collector announcement]; Mr. E. Nealey, recorded in Burbage; provides biographical information; makes reference to cockfighting; an Endowed School; selling newspapers at the age of nine; aunt and unc...

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Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Wally Hull, recorded at Little Downham on the 15 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A672r]; talks about winter weather; skating and champion skaters; his work as a postm...

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Archive Sub-collection

Papers of Professor John Wilfred Harvey on philosophy and religion

Harvey, John Wilfred (1889-1967)

19--

These papers were received in February 1975 from Mrs Sarah G Graham, a member of the Harvey family acting under the will. In the main, they consist of manuscripts (or typescripts with manuscript emend...

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Archive File

Dialect and Linguistic Pamphlets

1940-1974

This file contains 19 dialect- and linguistics-related pamphlets, offprints and reprints, deposited in the Dialect File. Many include inscriptions from the author to Harold Orton. Includes: - Der La...

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