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Allen, Charlie (1879-1879)1
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Archive Collection

PAPERS OF THE MANBY FAMILY OF SKIPTON

19th-20th century

Includes Marshal General Plantagenet-Harrison's History of Yorkshire [annotated], 1879, Frederic Manby's best school book, 1851, notes on the Parbury, Swale and Tyzack families, together with business...

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John Bancroft and Company Limited, Business Archive

John Bancroft and Company Limited

1885-1938

----------- Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections. -----------

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Blickling, Norfolk. Survey of English Dialects recording in Garboldisham, Norfolk

06 Feb-02 Mar 1957

[Side 1] Sidney describes first jobs on farm aged 7 years old incl. working in bakehouse until accident with revolver injured hand, talks about sheep farming incl. feeding and use of fold, mentions oc...

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Archive File

Council Minutes and Papers

30 May 2019

Contains: 1) Agenda 30 May - revised 2) CL-18-66 VC Report 3) CL-18-67 Student Support Annual Report 2018-2019 4) CL-18-68 Non-continuation trends 5) CL-18-69 Portfolio monitoring dashboard 6) C...

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The Beveridge report in brief
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The Beveridge report in brief

Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge Baron (1879-1963); Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge Baron (1879-1963)

1942

Full report: "Social insurance and allied services", Cmd.6404.

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ZEMGOR Archive

1910s-1970s

Zemgor is a Russian emigre welfare organisation based in Paris. It originated in Russia during World War I, when two rural and urban local-government and public-service umbrella bodies, Zemskii soiuz ...

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Sound Recordings, Somerset and Devon

Wakelin, Martyn F

1964

Mr. H. Evett , recorded in Brompton Regis; talks about farm work; time started each day; working with horses; hours of work and wages; tools for hedging; also present is a Mr. A. Gibbs, who talks abou...

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Edward Ripley and Son, Business Archive

Edward Ripley and Son; Ripley, Henry William; Ripley, Edward

1831-1950

----------- Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections. ----------- Large colle...

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Sound Recordings, Berkshire, Surrey, Essex and West Sussex

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1959

[Collector announcement]; Charles Allen, recorded in West Ilsley; talks about ploughing with horses; ploughing with tractors; compares past and present; describes a working day on the farm; the villag...

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R. V. Marriner Limited, Business Archive

R.V. Marriner Limited

1630-1979

Summary of Contents: 1. Marriner Textile Business Records. 1804-1942. 2. Marriner Miscellaneous Personal and Estate Records. 1750s- 1930s. 3.. Lister Family (Frizinghall), Textile Business Recor...

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Archive Collection

Archive Collection

Edmund Gosse Archive

Gosse family

c.1823-1954

The Gosse collection includes material from five generations of the Gosse family, but is largely the archive of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), the writer and literary critic. The collection hol...

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