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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture8
Cookery Collection3
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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1

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games16
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Broadhead, Albert1
Broadhead, Bernard1
Child, Lydia Maria Francis (1802-1880)1
Claughton, Mr R. Mick1
Cloughton1
Cooke, Jane A1
Frith, Mrs1
Frith, Toni1
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The book of indoor games

Phillips, Hubert (1891-1964); Westall, B C

1933

Blank pages for "Notes" ([327]-336)

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The girl's own book

Child, Lydia Maria Francis (1802-1880)

1850

'Works published by William Tegg & co.' - last 16 pages.

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A little pretty pocket-book

Newbery, John (1713-1767); Thwaite, M F

1966

Bibliography: p. [147]-177.

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Notes

1840-1947

Various notes relating to the Novello Cowden Clarke family, including fragments of book dedications, biographical notes, autographs and puzzles.

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Sound Recordings, Greater Manchester

Waller, Vivien M

1961-1962

Schoolgirls and boys from Greater Manchester give examples of skipping rhymes, song parodies, dipping rhymes, explanations of chasing/ring games (also card games), Pancake Tuesday rhyme and autograph ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[November 1966]

[Announcement]; Mr. R. M. Claughton, recorded in Askrigg; collector introduces Mr. Claughton, who goes on to describe the building of a dry stone wall - selection of stones, courses and terminology; t...

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Some Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Yorkshire Life: A Re-Examination of George Walker, The Costume of Yorkshire, 1814

Langhorne, Richard

1971

M.A. thesis which takes the activities, tools and equipment illustrated in George Walker's 'The Costume of Yorkshire' as the introduction for a study of such objects as they are represented in the mus...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

McCosh, Sandra

[1973-1974]

Eight/nine year old girls and boys, recorded at Our Lady's Primary School in Leeds, talk about learning songs and jokes (sources include the television, comics, family and friends); the appeal of the ...

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Jokes, Rhymes and Language

1969-1979

This file includes a mounted newspaper article from the 'Yorkshire Post'(19 November 1979), on children's jokes and Sandra McCosh's fieldwork collecting jokes from schoolchildren in Leeds for her M.A....

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