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Total number of records: 18

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community life18
culture18
literature and folklore18
war18
oral traditions17
occupations9
english language - dialects8
food8
crime6
education6

Top 10: People and organisations

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Bond, Francis Keith7
Pearce, Ben3
Leeming, Chris2
Sacksfield, Jack2
Sutcliffe, Ken2
Agar, Jack1
Bickerstaffe, Mary1
Bickerstaffe, Robert1
Bond, J. F.1
Bond, Kathy1

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War Verse

Shearman, Morgan John

1976

This file contains a photocopy of ms. pages from a war diary kept by Morgan John Shearman, a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps attached to the South Wales Borderers during World War One. The diar...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Unidentified male informant talks about Army life during World War Two, rationing, and relates various humorous anecdotes. [Tr. 3] René Bond talks about her experience as a fourteen year old living...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Mr. J. F. Bond [collector's father] talks about the experience of World War Two in Liverpool; Army volunteer (training in Perth) - posted to Normandy, through Europe to Berlin; riots in Trieste; his y...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

16 February 1981

[Collector announcement]; Ben Pearce, recorded in Leeds on the 16 February 1981 [conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A601]; talks about bombers flying in formation, attacking Sumatra...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Unidentified male (a policeman during and after World War Two) talks about Civil Defence, the Blitz on Liverpool and area, wartime spirit, the emergency services, rationing and food, anecdotal inciden...

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Sound Recordings, Liverpool

Bond, Francis Keith

1973-1974

Interviews with Henry Glover of Melling [Tr. 4], and the grandparents of the collector, Mary Bickerstaffe and Robert Bickerstaffe [Tr. 5], resident in the Page Moss area of Liverpool. All discuss thei...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Unidentified female talks about her experience of living in Liverpool during World War Two - air raid shelters, songs at school, gas masks, dockers' reminiscences, rationing, wartime spirit, life at s...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

20 January 1971

George Hancock recorded singing and in conversation at Sheephill Farm, in the Ringinglow area of Sheffield. Talk of previous [?October 1970] recording session, teaching songs to his grandson, hunting ...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

17 March 1981

Interviews with four men regarding their experiences as Royal Air Force air gunners during World War Two. The interviews were recorded in the studio of Leeds University Television Service in Leeds. ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire,

3 February 1981

Ken Sutcliffe, recorded in his home in the Cookridge area of Leeds; talks about papers and books concerning World War Two bombers; occupied territories (Holland); photographs; [collector announcement]...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

1981

[Collector announcement]; Jack Agar, recorded in the Territorial Army's Churchill Barracks in Leeds, on the 17 February 1981; gives biographical details; talks about the outbreak of World War Two; joi...

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The People of the City of Liverpool and their Second World War

Bond, Francis Keith

1974

A dissertation comprising the recollections of people living in Liverpool during World War Two, based on tape-recorded conversations with fifteen informants.

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