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Total number of records: 5

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religion5
community life4
manners and customs4
social life and customs4
culture3
education3
occupations3
agriculture2
animals2
associations, institutions, etc2

Top 10: People and organisations

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Brooksbank, Irvine1
Edelston, Harry1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Garvey, Billy1
Godfrey, Peter B1
Hubbard, Wendy E1
Moore, William1
Pickering, Michael J1
Price, Eric Shirwell1
Shinger, Harry1

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Northumberland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1950s]

Irvine Brooksbank, recorded in Thornton in May 1957; talks about the house in which he was born; working as a farm lad scaring birds; the farmer he worked for; local quarries and his father book keepi...

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Fairies, Folklore, and Supernatural Animals

1963-1978

This file contains items relating to fairies, folklore and supernatural animals. This includes a photocopy of the introduction to an article on Robert Kirk's 'The Secret Common-wealth', from the 'Scot...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September/October 1973

Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about Janet Blunt's folk song collecting, and people's perceptions of her in Adderbury; musical afternoons/evenings at her house; singing in the loca...

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Sound Recordings, Shropshire

Hubbard, Wendy E

October-November 1958

[Collector announcement]; William Moore, [?recorded in Albrighton (Shropshire)], talks about his father's haulage business; harvesting; the weather; his father; a motorbike; an anecdote about retrievi...

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Correspondence of Harry Edelston with the editors of "Faith and Freedom".

Edelston, Harry

1972-1988

Correspondence, some of it in draft form, with two editors of the Unitarian journal "Faith and Freedom", including notes and drafts of some of his articles for the journal.

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