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Fox, George (1624-1691)2
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Archive Collection

Arabic, Middle Eastern and Asian Manuscripts

500-2000

The Department of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies has deposited its collection of Middle Eastern and Asian manuscripts in Special Collections. There are over 370 manuscripts in primarily in...

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Archive Item

Sound Recordings, [Dorset]

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Paull [location not given] relates his experiences of fighting in World War One; the Somme in 1917 and being wounded; convalescence in Wyke Regis; Paschendale Ridge; the Somme; working life after ...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

Miriam Cross, recorded at home in Prickwillow on 10 June 1974; talks about her childhood home in the village; parents (farmers); baking using a brick oven; jam making; pig killing; describes the Fen r...

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Archive Print part

Extracts from the black book of Warwick. To which are added Mr. Pegge's memoir on Guy Earl of Warwick, and Sir Thomas More's narrative of a religious frenzy at Coventry

More, Thomas Sir, Saint (1478-1535); Pegge, Samuel (1704-1796); Brown, Isabelle Kittson (1860-1928); Nichols, John (1745-1826); Carter, John (1748-1817)

MDCCLXXXIII [1783]

Final leaf is a singleton. "Price one shilling and six pence."--T.p. Half-title: Bibliotheca topographica Britannica. no. XVII. Containing I. Extracts from....II. Memoir on the story....III. Sir T...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

[Mid-1960s]

Male, recorded in Filey in April 1962 [date when this copy tape made not known]; relates two dialect recitations concerning the local area, and anecdotes/jokes about local characters and the area. [Tr...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire and Derbyshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Barry, Michael V (1935-); Siporin, Rae Lee

[1966-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Cheshire locations 7Ch3-6 and Derbyshire 8Db1-2. The original recordings were made in 1955, 1957, 1965 and 1966. The date wh...

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Archive File

May, 2007, Madrid

Jan 2007 - May 2007

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's involvement in the"Religion and Violence" conference. (7-10 May 2007, Circle of Fine Arts of Madrid)

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Archive Sub-collection

Papers of Professor John Wilfred Harvey on philosophy and religion

Harvey, John Wilfred (1889-1967)

19--

These papers were received in February 1975 from Mrs Sarah G Graham, a member of the Harvey family acting under the will. In the main, they consist of manuscripts (or typescripts with manuscript emend...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1974

[Collector announcement]; Bertram Bridgement, recorded in Manea on the 3 July 1974; talks about farming and farm jobs pre-mechanisation; dyke/drain digging tools; job as a horseman; showing horses (Sh...

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Archive File

Pagan and Christian Mythology

1955-1976

This file contains items relating to pagan gods and legends, giants and Christian mythology. The file includes a copy of Stewart Sanderson's paper, 'Abitanti Soprannaturali delle Acque Scozzesi / Supe...

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