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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture9
Brotherton Collection1
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1
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Barrett, Sir James W (1862-1945)1
Deane, P E1
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Archive Print Item

The importance of a knowledge of geology to military men

Hutton, F W (1836-1905)

[1862]

Extracted from the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, vol. VI, no. XXIV, 1862.

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Military Humour

Wills, Caroline

1979

A study of verbal military humour, based on written items sent to the collector from a British Army unit based in Antwerp (70 items), and 500 items from the Humor in Uniform pages of the 'Readers' Dig...

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Society of Friends Peace Committee related papers and other peace movements collected by Joseph Sturge

Sturge, Joseph (1818-1874)

1850-1927

Comprises letters, reports, press cuttings, pamphlets and other material concerned with peace movements in Britain from before the outbreak of the First World War until the 1920s

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

8 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; Tommy Gallon, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about pub singing - starting, joining in, songs sung, time, landlord, changes and non-locals; learning songs; cycling to pub...

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The Customs and Traditions of the Staffordshire Regiment

Harvey, M C

1970

A dissertation which records and analyses the customs and traditions of the Staffordshire Regiment of the British Army, based on written sources and interviews with past and present members of the Reg...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire,

3 February 1981

Ken Sutcliffe, recorded in his home in the Cookridge area of Leeds; talks about papers and books concerning World War Two bombers; occupied territories (Holland); photographs; [collector announcement]...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

1981

[Collector announcement]; Jack Agar, recorded in the Territorial Army's Churchill Barracks in Leeds, on the 17 February 1981; gives biographical details; talks about the outbreak of World War Two; joi...

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The smoke and the fire : myths and anti-myths of war 1861-1945

Terraine, John

1981

Originally pub.: London : Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980.

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Carry on : a magazine on the reconstruction of disabled soldiers and sailors (v.1, no.6, Mar. 1919)

Wood, Casey A (1856-1942); United States. Surgeon-General's Office

1918-1919

Editor-in-chief: Casey Albert Wood, lieut-colonel M.R.C.

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Carry on : a magazine on the reconstruction of disabled soldiers and sailors (v.1, no.4, Oct.-Nov. 1918)

Wood, Casey A (1856-1942); United States. Surgeon-General's Office

1918-1919

Editor-in-chief: Casey Albert Wood, lieut-colonel M.R.C.

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