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culture7
energy industries7
literature and folklore7
occupations7
community life6
mines and mineral resources5
communication4
history4
manners and customs4
social life and customs4

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Crook, Rosemary2
Flinn, Gladys1
Morgan, Mary1
Wood, Mary1

Archive Sub-series

Forestry

1969-1971

This subseries, comprising one file only, includes Oliver Rackham's article on the ancient woodlands of East Anglia, extracted from 'Country Life' (21 October 1971), pp. 1062-1066; William Seymour's a...

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Occasional Poetry

[1970-1973]

This file contains ms. notes on verses written following the Lofthouse Colliery disaster and their authors; a printed copy of Ephraim Mugglestone's poem, 'The Tragedy of the Lofthouse Colliery Disaste...

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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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Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

3 January 1980

Mary Morgan (of Ferndale) talks about her family (siblings; parents - occupations); domestic life - washing, bathing, cooking, sleeping arrangements; the General Strike; mining; mother-in-law working ...

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Social Questions

[1960s-1970s]

This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items relating to labour and industrial unrest. This includes an ms. account, compiled from an original ms. source, of a Luddite attack on Cartwright...

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Sound Recordings, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

9 January 1980

Recorded in an Old People's Home in Treorchy ; Gladys Flinn (born Ystrad, Glamorgan) talks about family background, occupation of father; describes domestic routine - clothes washing, sleeping arrange...

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The Dwelling House: Rooms, Fittings, Utilities, Etc.

1969-1979

This file contains items on various aspects of the dwelling house, with a focus on fittings and equipment and domestic utilities. This includes an article by Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby on farm kit...

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