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A dialoge or confabulation between two travellers : which treateth of civile and pollitike gouvernement in dyvers kingdomes & contries
Spelman, William (fl. 1560-1580); Pickering, John Edward Latton; Roxburghe Club
1896
Presented to the Roxburghe Club by Victor W. B. Van de Weyer. Listed as no. 128 in the Club's Catalogue of Books, 1898.
Dales Kitchen
Unno, Bertrand
[1960s]
Display of Dales kitchen furniture and utensils in the setting of an old Dales kitchen, at an unidentified Yorkshire museum. The furniture includes a wooden dresser, table, chair and stools. Various u...
Dales Kitchen
Unno, Bertrand
[1960s]
Display of Dales furniture, in the setting of an old Dales kitchen, at an unidentified Yorkshire museum. The furniture includes wooden chairs, a set table, a spinning wheel, a grandfather clock, shelv...
Harvest Supper Setting
[1960s]
Display showing a room decorated for a Wolds harvest supper, at an unidentified Yorkshire museum. The scene shows a long table and benches set for at least twelve people, with candles, jugs, bread, pi...
Bartle (West Witton Bartle Fair)
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
24 August 1967
Mr. James Ward of West Witton ( Wensleydale) with a young boy, putting the finishing touches to the Bartle for the West Witton Bartle Fair. The Bartle is a guy that will be burned on a bonfire as part...
Bartle (West Witton Bartle Fair)
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
24 August 1967
Mr. James Ward of West Witton ( Wensleydale) putting the finishing touches to the Bartle for the West Witton Bartle Fair. The Bartle is a guy that will be burned on a bonfire as part of the fair celeb...
Preston Guild Photographs
[1974]
The two photographs show street scenes in Preston relating to the activities of the Preston Guild. The first shows decorations adorning houses and street furniture; the second a street party, with chi...
Trailing for Bonfire Wood
1967
Copy of a photograph of a group of children, young and old, collecting (or trailing for) bonfire wood, Castle Bolton ( Wensleydale). Stone cottages, and the ruins of Bolton Castle are visible in the b...
Sound Recording, Durham
Pickering, Michael J
5 April 1974
Professor Thomas Thacker, recorded at home in Durham; gives his recollections of Janet Bluntin the late 1920s/early 1930s; attitudes of villagers to her and vice versa; her family, folk song collectin...
Folk Dance: General
[1971-1979]
This file contains a photocopy of the English Folk Dance and Song Society's leaflet number 15, 'Folk Dance Articles in the Journal of the English Folk Dance Society, Journal of the English Folk Dance ...
The epicure's almanack : eating and drinking in Regency London : the original 1815 guidebook
Rylance, Ralph; Freeman, Janet Ing; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
2012
Includes bibliographical references and index. The Epicure's almanack and its author -- In and around London -- Where to eat, when, and with whom -- Eating, drinking, cooking, ane marketing. "The ...
Witchcraft and Sorcery Among the Ejagham (West Cameroon), with an Ethnographical Introduction
Ebot, Wilson Atem
1978
This Ph.D. thesis describes beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery among the Ejagham, West Cameroon, in the context of development and change. It is divided into five sections, subdivided into eighteen cha...