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Wright, John T6
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)4
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Ernest2
Kanellou-Thanassoulas, Alexandra2
Kylstra, Henk E2
Nevill, Lady Dorothy (1826-1913)2
Nevill, Ralph (1865-1930)2

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Archive Print Item

Leaves from the note-books of Lady Dorothy Nevill (c.2)

Nevill, Lady Dorothy (1826-1913); Nevill, Ralph (1865-1930); Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982); R. & R. Clark (Firm)

1907

Publisher's advertisements on 2-3 unnumbered pages at end.

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Leaves from the note-books of Lady Dorothy Nevill

Nevill, Lady Dorothy (1826-1913); Nevill, Ralph (1865-1930); Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982); R. & R. Clark (Firm)

1907

Publisher's advertisements on 2-3 unnumbered pages at end.

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Archive Object Item

Decorated Egg

[1960s]

A hard-boiled, decorated egg, coloured with a food-based(?) red/pink dye. The shell is patterned with stencils made from small fern leaves and wild flowers.

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Popular Customs of Thrace

Kanellou-Thanassoulas, Alexandra

[ca. early-mid 1970s]

This file contains a typed paper, with ms. corrections, on the celebration of the Anastenari and the Kalogeros in North-Eastern Thrace, [24] pp.; and a photocopy of a typed paper, annotated in ms. [?b...

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Appleby Horse Fair

Caunce, Stephen

1972

This file contains a photocopy of an ms. paper by Stephen Caunce, consisting of an account of a visit to the last day of Appleby Horse Fair in June 1972 ([5] leaves). The account includes descriptions...

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Village Song and Culture: A Study Based on the Blunt Collection of Song from Adderbury, North Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

1981

This file contains a complete photocopy of a typed draft, with ms. corrections, of Pickering's study of the folk songs of Adderbury, as published by Croom Helm , 1982, [viii], 281 leaves. The book was...

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Pregnancy and Birth

1964-1976

This file contains items relating to pregnancy and birth customs, and includes a typed paper by Mrs. A. Pennie on baby lore and luck in love (1964), 5 leaves; a photocopy of Audrey Chamberlain's artic...

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Crime

[1972-1983]

This file contains items on criminal activities, including highway robbery and coining. This includes an ms note from Ivor Clissold to Tony Green describing a custom undertaken on leaving prison, coll...

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Sound Recording, Cornwall

Wakelin, Martyn F; Tilling, Philip M (1938-)

July 1963

Harry Welshman, recorded in Duloe; talks about his time in the village; agricultural work and wages; leaving school aged fourteen; father's work as a gamekeeper; Army service during World War One; tak...

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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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Topping Out Ceremony

July 1967

Topping out ceremony at a new block of flats near Swiss Cottage, London. The ceremony is traditional in the building industry, and marks either the roofing-in of a building, or the half-way stage in t...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

[1970s]

Mr. J. Froggatts, recorded in Chapelthorpe; talks about Pontefract Horse Fair; anecdotes relating to his family; biographical details; half time at school aged twelve, working part-time in the pit; le...

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