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Striking a Bargain (France)
Spiegel, Ted
1972
Male buyer and seller striking a bargain over cattle [?in Vrigny (Orne, Normandy)]. The hand gesture used to seal the bargain is known in Normandy as Tape le Main, or Taper les Mains. Mounted on Photo...
Concert Party
[1970s]
Copy of a photographic postcard dating from around 1916/1917, of an all-female concert party group dressed in pierrot-like costumes. The women are thought to be Miss Lena Ashwell's Concert Party (poss...
Sound Recording, Hampshire
Wakelin, Martyn F
1964
Charles Sheppard, recorded in Bishop's Sutton; talks about working with pigs; rook starving [scaring] after the corn sown; scarecrows; service in the Rifle Brigade during World War One, in France; ret...
Survey of Domestic Eating Arrangements, 1981-1982
1981-1982
This file contains papers written by students of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) during an exercise forming part of the undergraduate degree in Folk Life Studies. The students w...
Sound Recording, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian
7 August 1972
George Hancock recorded in conversation at home, Sheephill Farm, in the Ringinglow area of Sheffield. Mrs. George Hancock also contributes. Talk of (dairy) farming; Penistone and Bakewell markets; alt...
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...
Sound Recording, East Sussex
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1964]
Mr. W. Glapson, recorded in Horam; talks about his smallholding and retirement from farming; farm work - mowing corn with a scythe, binding and stooking, stacking; modern farming; first jobs, aged fou...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
25 June 1974
Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], talks about his family; experience of World War One, war injuries, hospitalisation in Cambridge and Sidcup, writing poetry, fellow patients, inc...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
15 July 1974
Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, sings 'Keep the Home Fires Burning', followed by comments on the song and recollections of his time spent in France during World War One; sings 'Long Trail A-Windi...
Parish and Church
[1965-1975]
This subseries, comprising a single file only, includes Werner Kissling's ms. notes on the Foresters' Walk in Coverdale (connected with the Ancient Order of Foresters) and its byelaws; Margaret Ottley...
Sound Recordings, Derbyshire
Siporin, Rae Lee
1965
An interview recorded in the farmhouse of William Eliot. Mr. Eliot talks about the village of Derwent before the building of the Howden, Derwent and Ladybower reservoirs; livestock; local farms; the m...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
11 September 1974
James Knights, recorded at home in Little Glemham; talks about singing as a boy, winning first prize in a singing competition; song papers, murder songs, song papers and penny song books; learning tun...