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art28
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culture28
english language - dialects13
manners and customs12
vehicles11
nature10
occupations10
animals9
religion9

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Pyne, William Henry (1769-1843)4
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)2
Brears, Peter C D1
Calvert, Valerie E1
Charlesworth, Martin1
Green, Anthony E (1943-)1
Hudleston, Nigel A1
Philpot, Harold E1
Rudall, Alison E1
Shan, Harnam Singh1

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Broad-Wheeled Sussex Waggon Diagram

Philpot, Harold E

1952-1954

Blueprint annotated and labelled diagram, 'The Broad Wheeled Sussex Waggon as Used in the Counties Sussex and Kent, Southern England, circa 1700-1930'. The diagrams are based on a wagon built by A. K....

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Marble-Finishing

1980

This file contains a cutting from the 'Yorkshire Evening Post' on Allan Preston, a tradesman skilled in the art of giving surfaces a marble-effect finish (14 July 1980).

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Wall Painting (Sweden)
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Wall Painting (Sweden)

March 1965

Slide of Ivares Daniel Andersson's wall painting, 'The Ascension of Elijah'/ 'Elie Himmelsfärd', Rättvik (Dalarnas Lan, Sweden). The painting is an example of the Dalamälning style of folk art, w...

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Wall Painting (Sweden)
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Wall Painting (Sweden)

March 1965

Slide of Ivares Daniel Andersson's wall painting, 'The Queen of Sheba'/ 'Drottningen av Saba', Rättvik (Dalarnas Lan, Sweden). The painting is an example of the Dalamälning style of folk art, whic...

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Wall Painting (Sweden)
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Wall Painting (Sweden)

March 1965

Slide of Johannes Nilsson's wall painting, 'Adam and Eve'/ 'Adam och Eva', Breared (Hallands Lan, Sweden). The painting depicts Adam and Eve eating fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. The painting is no...

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Wall Painting (Sweden)
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Wall Painting (Sweden)

March 1965

Slide of Anders Bengtsson's wall painting, 'The Wise Men'/ 'De Tre Vise Männen', painted in 1837, Norra Bökeberg (Hallands Lan, Sweden). The painting depicts the biblical scene of the Adoration of t...

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Wall Painting (Sweden)
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Wall Painting (Sweden)

March 1965

Slide of a wall painting of Christ's entry into Jerusalem, by Johannes Nilsson(?), Breared (Hallands Lan, Sweden). The painting shows Christ riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. To the left of the paint...

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Correspondence File

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-); Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1977-1981

Responses to an International Association of Sound Archivesquestionnaire, from Stewart Sanderson (1977) and Tony Green (1981), detailing the holdings of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studie...

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Cart Diagrams

Brears, Peter C D

[1970s]

Printed scale illustrations of the Halifax Heck Cart and the Lister Chaise (made for James Lister of Shibden Hall), shaded in coloured pencil to match the descriptions of the carts printed on the vers...

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Tan Hill Inn Engraving
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Tan Hill Inn Engraving

[1970s]

Engraving of the Tan Hill Inn at Tan Hill (North Yorkshire). The inn is the highest public house in the UK (536 metres above sea level ), and has an interesting history having stood at the crossroads ...

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The Romance of Sassi: A Critical and Comparative Study

Shan, Harnam Singh

1964

A study of the Indian tragic romance legend of 'Sassi Punnun', submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Indian Lore and Literature) in the Arts Faculty of the University of London, through th...

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Suffolk Punch Lithograph

[1970s]

Photograph of a lithograph of a Suffolk Punch stallion. The lithograph is by William Nicholson from a painting by Mr. Shiels, and appears in David Low's 'The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the Brit...

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