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Archives11
Indexes3
Books and printed items2

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture10
Letters Database3
Brotherton Collection1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1

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manners and customs3
occupations3
play3
social life and customs3
sports3
agriculture2
animals2
architecture2
associations, institutions, etc2
beverages2

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England7
Hampshire7
Oakley7

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Smith, George16
Wright, John T9
Allen, Walter John2
Halpin, Nicholas John2
Kylstra, Henk E2
Orchard, Bill2
Tyler, William (1893-1893)2
William2
Blake, Mr William1
Brodie, William (1741-1788)1

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Archive Item

Halpin, Nicholas John to Smith, George

13 Dec 1844

Handwritten letter from the clergyman and writer John Nicholas Halpin to George Smith, expressing his gratitude to Smith for drawing his attention to Mary Cowden Clarke's 'Concordance to Shakespeare' ...

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Sender: Halpin, Nicholas John

Recipient: Smith, George

Letters: 1

Date(s): 13 Dec 1844

Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection

Sender: Smith, George

Recipient: Shorter, Clement King

Letters: 1

Date(s): 10 Jul 1895

Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C15, mounted and bound with typed transcripts in volume "Brontëana - Smith, Elder & Co - Clement K. Shorter correspondence"

Oakley Response Book - 39Ha2
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Oakley Response Book - 39Ha2

Wright, John T

29 Mar 1958 - 2 Apr 1958

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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Sound Recording, North Lincolnshire

Haldenby, Cynthia

October 1958

George Smith, recorded in South Ferriby; talks about his working life (hours, accidents, conditions), including thirty years in a brickyard, at Barton-upon-Humber cement works and in Hull; accidents a...

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Sender: Merivale, Herman Charles

Recipient: Smith, George

Letters: 1

Date(s): n.d. [aft. 1859]

Location: BC Misc. letters 2


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Sound Recordings, Hampshire and Wiltshire

Kylstra, Henk E; Wright, John T

1960-1961

William Blake, recorded in Hambledon by Henk Kylstra; talks about his work as a shepherd during the years 1919-1958; the village of Hambledon past and present; schooling; work as a shepherd boy on lea...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Hampshire

Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E

1957-1961

[Announcement by Henk Kylstra]; Ernest Packer, recorded in Ashton Keynes in July 1957, by John Wright; talks about work with horses and waggon, on leaving school aged eleven; agricultural wages; ploug...

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Trial of Deacon Brodie

Brodie, William (1741-1788); Smith, George (1788); Roughead, William (1870-1952)

[1921]

Trial of William Brodie and George Smith in Edinburgh, 1788, for the crime of theft attended with house-breaking.

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Gypsy children (Romani chavies) : or, A stroll in gypsydom, with songs and stories, being incidents, plans and suggestions for improving the condition of the gypsy and van children

Smith, George (1831-1895); Smith, George (1831-1895)

[1891]

2 parts bound together. Part 2 is introduced in this edition, part 1 is a duplicate of the [1889] edition.

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Oakley Response Book - 39Ha2
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Book I: The Farm [Oakley Response Book]

Wright, John T

29 Mar 1958 - 2 Apr 1958

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to the farm. The answers of informant George Smith recorded by fieldworker John Wright in the International Ph...

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Oakley Response Book - 39Ha2
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Notes [Oakley Response Book]

Wright, John T

29 Mar 1958 - 2 Apr 1958

Notes section at the rear of the response book. Includes biographical information about the informants. Includes notes on the locality.

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