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Total number of records: 19

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Archives14
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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture14
Brotherton Collection2
Cookery Collection2
English Literature2

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hobbies19
play13
community life12
culture10
occupations8
sports7
english language - dialects6
manners and customs6
nature6
animals5

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Bergal, Nancy Ann2
Gledhill, James2
Gosse, Philip (1879-1959)2
Fursman, Mr1
Hart, William1
Higgenbottom1
Higginbottom, Mr Bernard1
Hilton, Mr Arthur1
Houck, Charles L1

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Archive Item

Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

James Gledhill, recorded in Golcar; talks about working in a woollen cloth textile mill - processes, differences between spinning/producing woollen and worsted materials; leisure time, including a des...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Cheshire

Siporin, Rae Lee

May 1965

[Collector announcement]; Mr. E. Nealey, recorded in Burbage; provides biographical information; makes reference to cockfighting; an Endowed School; selling newspapers at the age of nine; aunt and unc...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Houck, Charles L

[Mid 1960s-1970s]

Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of...

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Hikers
Archive Item

Hikers

[1970s]

View from behind of two men with rucksacks walking along a dirt track across open moorland at an unidentified location.

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Digitised copy available on the Internet Archive as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library Project
Archive Print Item

The young lady's book : a manual of elegant recreations, arts, sciences, and accomplishments

[1859?]

Revised version of the London, Vizetelly, 1829 edition which includes many of the original Vizetelly engravings.

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Archive Print Item

Archive Print Item

Natural history as a hobby

Sheppard, Thomas (1876-1945)

1908

"Reprinted from the Hull and East Yorks. teacher, July-Oct. 1908".

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