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Total number of records: 19

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture17
Brotherton Collection1
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

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health19
well-being17
community life14
occupations13
manners and customs12
culture11
social life and customs10
english language - dialects8
food8
nature8

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Burley In Wharfdale, United Kingdom1
Leeds, United Kingdom1

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Sullivan, Keith Frederick4
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Morris, Patricia M2
Aldous, Leonard1
Arnold, Jim1
Blake, Mr William1
Bryon, Fiona1
Casbon, Herbert1
Chapman, George Fletcher1
Cornfirth, Sid1

Archive Item

Letter from Heckingbottom to Maurice de Sausmarez

22 Jan 1958

Typed letter from Heckingbottom, Manager at the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, to Maurice de Sausmarez, informing him that a medical certificate is due the following day and confirming t...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in York, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

19 Aug 1953

[Side 1] Joe tells anecdote about getting lost when out with cart one night, describes changes to street in his lifetime, remembers regular cooperation with neighbour over waggons, briefly mentions mo...

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Cancer -- iv

Great Britain. Ministry of Health

1924

Addressed to "Local authorities (England and Wales). Caption title (p.3): Memorandum: On experimental cancer research.

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"Eli Frankham: A Study of a Modern British Gypsy"

Williamson, Anne

1977

A study of Gypsy Traveller folklore, based on interviews with Eli Frankham, from the Gypsy Traveller community, living in Norfolk. Eight chapters present a brief history of the Gypsy Travellers, a bio...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

[September 1981]

Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; gives biographical details (born in the Bramley area of Leeds); recollections of baptism as a child; family; other Bramley families; Bra...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

1 April 1963

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Wright, recorded at home in South Zeal; talks about ploughing with horses from the age of twelve; transporting people and other loads by horse and cart; wages; wrestli...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

18 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary'; talks about personal changes in employment after World War Two, and his move away from f...

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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

10 Jun 1980 - 15 Dec 1980

Jim Roche [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A087] talks about his Trade Union involvement as a Shop Steward in the Leeds clothing industry: industrial and social problems of members; church involvement in...

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Patterns and Perception of Menstrual Bleeding in Ten Regions

University of Exeter. Department of Sociology. Family Planning Research Unit

1975

This file contains a study on cross-cultural perceptions of menstrual bleeding, conducted by researchers at the Family Planning Research Unit at Exeter University, on behalf of the World Health Organi...

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Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

10 April 1980

May Jenkins (born Treorchy) talks about her family origins, childhood recollections of domestic routines - washing, describes fireplace and oven, order of washing, ironing, starch, order of hanging wa...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

29 November 1976

[Collector announcement]; Sid Cornfirth [and family], recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about Mrs. Cornfirth playing quoits; Ugthorpe quoits teams and the game's popularity; singing, singers and son...

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Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

7 February 1976

[Collector announcement]; William Hart, recorded at home in Wilton ; sings 'Out in the Wild World'; talks about his father and his employment on local farms and ironstone mines, his death in 1930; WH ...

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