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Total number of records: 101

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
buildings101
community life101
human settlements101
manners and customs66
culture62
occupations50
social life and customs44
english language - dialects35
play34
agriculture30

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Pickering, Michael J8
Dunn, Ginette7
Sullivan, Keith Frederick7
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)6
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)4
Voitl, Herbert4
Green, Anthony E (1943-)3
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)3
Baldwin, John R2
Cooke, Jane A2

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Yorkshire Castles

Taylor, Alfred

1962

This file contains articles from Alfred Taylor's 'Round Yorkshire Castles' series, published in and extracted from the 'Yorkshire Evening Post'. The complete series ran from July - October (?) 1962, a...

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Villages

1971

This subseries, comprising one file, contains a two-part article by John Cornforth on the village of Old Deerfield, Massachusetts, extracted from 'Country Life' magazine (22 July 1971, pp. 214-217, an...

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Yorkshire Abbeys

Taylor, Alfred

1963

This file contains articles from Alfred Taylor's 'Bygone Abbeys of Yorkshire'/ 'Abbeys and Priories of Yorkshire'/ 'Bygone Abbeys and Priories of Yorkshire' series, published in and extracted from the...

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Wooden Cart: Romania
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Wooden Cart: Romania

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

December 1974

Male leading a wooden cart drawn by two horses down a street in Auseu (Romania). The cart is empty. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1193.

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Stoke Bruerne
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Stoke Bruerne

McNay, Ian

1966

General view of Stoke Bruerne and the Grand Union Canal (Northamptonshire).

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Dales Market Square
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Dales Market Square

[1970s]

Cobbled market square with monument at an unidentified location in the Yorkshire Dales.

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Village Street
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Village Street

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the early-20th centuryof a village street at an unidentified location. A group of children, boys and girls, play in the street in the foreground; a group of men are gathe...

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Mines, Mining, and Mining Communities

[1955-1979]

This file largely consists of photocopied articles and magazine and newspaper extracts and cuttings, including G. Bernard Wood's article, 'Relics of Rural Coal Mines', on mining remains in Yorkshire, ...

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The Role of the Public House in an Urban Environment

Hargreaves, Janet

1979

A study which examines the importance of public house visiting as a major leisure time activity, the pub as the centre of a community, and the customs and attitudes associated with the pub within an a...

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John Askham of Wellingborough: The Work of a Local Working-Class Author in the Nineteenth Century

Davies, Patrick J M

1983

A study of the writings of John Askham, shoemaker and author from Wellingborough in Northamptonshire. Askham's prose is discussed in relation to street literature of the beginning of the nineteenth ...

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Written Dialect Tradition in the West Riding of Yorkshire

Harris, Wendy

1973

An examination of song, recitation in verse and prose, and other items created for either public or private performance, appearing in dialect form and gathered from written or printed sources covering...

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View of Castle Bolton

[1960s]

View of Castle Bolton village ( Wensleydale) ca. 1900-1910, copied from a photographic negative in the possession of Mr. Robert S. Hunter of Castle Bolton. The image shows thatched stone cottages, a f...

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