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Total number of records: 131

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture126
Brotherton Collection3
Herbert Read Collection1

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agriculture131
community life126
education126
occupations125
nature100
animals85
food81
culture73
manners and customs65
food crops56

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)28
Barry, Michael V (1935-)13
Dunn, Ginette13
Tammivaara, Irmeli12
Siporin, Rae Lee8
Pasanen, Leena7
Panheinen, Ossi5
Sullivan, Keith Frederick5
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)5
Wright, John T5

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Fields, factories, and workshops

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich kn︠i︡azʹ (1842-1921)

1899

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Staveley-in-Kendal, Westmorland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

05 Nov 1954

[Side 1] Roger describes a typical year in sheep farming including dosage for 'flukes' [= parasitic worms], injections, lambing, castrating 'tups' [= male sheep], 'clipping' [= shearing], dipping, 'sp...

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Sheep Washing Trip (Outgang Beck)
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Sheep Washing Trip (Outgang Beck)

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

June 1965

Group involved in the trip by IDFLS staff to the old sheepwashing place on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). The group includes a local boy, Stewart Sanderson (2nd from left), Stanley Elli...

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Fields, factories, and workshops

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich kn︠i︡azʹ (1842-1921)

1899

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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

June 1965

Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). View from inside the fold of a farmer climbing out of the washpool, and heading towards Werner Kissling, who is taking photographs from t...

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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

June 1965

Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). View from inside the fold: farmer wet after having climbed out of the washpool, Werner Kissling, and a farmers' wife bringing a basket of...

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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

June 1965

Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Werner Kissling, farmer's wife with bottle of rum and basket of food, and Stewart Sanderson (just visible behind farmer's wife with film ...

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SED Fieldwork Notebook Page: Swaby
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SED Fieldwork Notebook Page: Swaby

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s-mid 1970s]

Page from an SED fieldwork notebook completed in ms. by Stanley Ellis. The page includes responses from informant Bill Elder of Swaby, Lincolnshire, recorded on 16 September 1951, to sections 1.1 and ...

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Peder Månssons Skrifter på svenska : efter handskrifter i Stockholm, Uppsala och Linköping

Månsson, Peder (1534); Vegetius Renatus, Flavius; Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus; Leonardi, Camillo; Albertus Magnus, Saint (1193?-1280); Erasmus, Desiderius (1536); Geete, Robert (1849-1928)

1913-15

Largely a collection of translations and adaptations from foreign sources. The originals (if any) of the 5th and 7th-12th treatises are unknown. cf. Inledning.

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Hunsonby, Cumberland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

14 Jan 1954

[Side 1] Albert talks about his schooldays, describes eccentric schoolmaster 'caving' about [= dancing awkwardly] betwen desks talking to himself, eventually could not cope singlehandedly with 85 chil...

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