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The World and You: Book One Part Two Historic City
1950
Proof copy of 'The World and You: Book One Part Two Historic City', with illustrations by Maurice de Sausmarez and text by F.G. Thomas. An Open Eyes Picture Book published by Chatto & Windus, London.
The Kellet Manuscript
Kellet, G R
[1970s]
The first file contains a photocopy of a manuscript by G. R. Kellet, being a memoir of growing up in Hunslet, Leeds, in the 1920s and 1930s. Although biographical, the manuscript includes descriptions...
Popular Belief in Leicester
Edge, Christine
1965
A study of the folklore of people living in Leicester, based on interviews with friends, acquaintances and other informants, including residents of a local Old Peoples' Home. The study contains six ch...
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...
Georgians revealed : life, style and the making of modern Britain
Goff, Moira; Goldfinch, John; Limper-Herz, Karen; Peden, Helen; Goodrich, Amanda (1957-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
2013
Includes bibliographical references (page 166) and index. Homes and gardens -- Architecture / Karen Limper-Herz -- Interior and garden design / Karen Limper-Herz -- Entertaining at home / Moira Goff...
Tales from the Pump Room : nine hundred years of Bath : the place, its people and its gossip
Hinde, Thomas (1926-2014); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1988
pt. 1 : Tales of the Past : Prince Bladud; Mediaeval Bath [medieval] ; Doctors of earlier times ; Early royal visitors ; The battle of Lansdowne Hil ; Pepys and his family visit 'the Bath' ; Queen Ann...
John William Jacob papers
Jacob, John William
c.1880-1930
Comprises manuscript notes and press cuttings, mostly on history and education-related subjects
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...