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Total number of records: 30

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Archives26
Books and printed items4

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture26
Cookery Collection4

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food30
occupations26
agriculture24
community life23
nature22
animals21
buildings20
food crops19
wealth19
implements, utensils etc18

Top 10: People and organisations

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Barry, Michael V (1935-)21
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)8
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)7
Beddow, William2
Burnett, Bill2
Crellin, Mrs Amanda2
Escoffier, A (1846-1935)2
Gilbert, Phileas2
Gottschalk, Alfred (1894-1973)2
Griffiths, Mr Harry2

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)

26 July 1972

Female, recorded in Leeds; talks about her career as Manageress of the Refectory at the University of Leeds (1935-1941). Describes the University in 1935; campus buildings; building scheme (demolition...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Starkey, Helen

28 Sep 1976 - 29 Sep 1979

Foodways: informants [ Gladys Parker and her husband], recorded in Brighouse, talk about beer/wine making; Sowerby Bridge Dock Pudding; Christmas food - preparation, ingredients for Christmas meal; Ea...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Muker, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

15 Apr 1955

[Side 1] Cooper talks about mowing by hand, explains grass would 'lig' [=] for day before being turned and put into 'lile cock/foot cock' [= small pile of hay], 'lap cock' [= medium-sized pile of hay]...

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Sound Recordings, Powys

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

[Collector announcement (Ellis)]; Mr. ?Richards, recorded outside in Llanafan-fawr [undated]; talks about the electricity supply to the area; fire grates in local houses; peat burning; local dwellings...

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Consuming passions : a history of English food and appetite

Pullar, Philippa (1935-)

1970

Bibliography: pages 264-270.

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Woman pocket weight controller

[between 1960 and 1969]

Title from cover.

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

[Collector announcement]; May Hard, recorded in Pymore on 13 June 1974; talks about her father's job as a blacksmith, shoes for horses and donkeys, cart repairs, making harrows, repairing/sharpening p...

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Larousse gastronomique

Montagné, Prosper (1864-1948); Gottschalk, Alfred (1894-1973); Escoffier, A (1846-1935); Gilbert, Philéas

[1938]

"Bibliographie culinaire et gastronomique ancienne et moderne": 4th prelim. leaf.

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Larousse gastronomique

Montagné, Prosper (1864-1948); Gottschalk, Alfred (1894-1973); Escoffier, A (1846-1935); Gilbert, Philéas

[1938]

"Bibliographie culinaire et gastronomique ancienne et moderne": 4th prelim. leaf.

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Sound Recording, Isle of Man

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

November 1958

[Collector announcement]; Amanda Crellin, recorded in Ronague; talks about cancer; prevalent diseases in her youth; smoking; hospital; food and drink in her father's time; going to school barefoot; ma...

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Sound Recording, Buckinghamshire

Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1967

Francis Hutt, recorded in Horton; talks about building and thatching corn stacks; clipping hedges; market gardening; milk round with pony - first job, aged eleven; carters' wages; ploughing and horse ...

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Sound Recordings, England

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Barry, Michael V (1935-); Francis, W Nelson (1910-2002)

[1960s]

Compilation of extracts from field recordings made between 1953 and 1959 as part of the Survey of English Dialects, dubbed and edited from gramophone disc copies by Reg Ross of the University of Leeds...

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