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Total number of records: 71

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
energy industries71
occupations71
mines and mineral resources59
culture53
community life45
manners and customs34
food32
english language - dialects30
nature28
social life and customs28

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)13
Barry, Michael V (1935-)5
Crook, Rosemary5
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)4
Upton, Clive S4
Bbc3
Feather, Leslie3
Mallinson, J Mrs3
Parker, Charles (1919-1980)3
Siporin, Rae Lee3

Archive File

Current Superstitions Television Script

Jay, Catharine

[1970s]

This file contains a transcript of television recordings made for a programme on contemporary popular superstitions and beliefs. The main part of the transcript is typed, and consists of eight rolls o...

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Occasional Poetry

[1970-1973]

This file contains ms. notes on verses written following the Lofthouse Colliery disaster and their authors; a printed copy of Ephraim Mugglestone's poem, 'The Tragedy of the Lofthouse Colliery Disaste...

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Radio Ballads Scripts

MacColl, Ewan (1915-1989); Parker, Charles (1919-1980)

1958-1960

This file contains four typed transcripts of production scripts for programmes in the BBC's Radio Ballads series, by Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker. These are a copy of the production script for 'The...

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The Dwelling House: Rooms, Fittings, Utilities, Etc.

1969-1979

This file contains items on various aspects of the dwelling house, with a focus on fittings and equipment and domestic utilities. This includes an article by Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby on farm kit...

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Forestry

1969-1971

This subseries, comprising one file only, includes Oliver Rackham's article on the ancient woodlands of East Anglia, extracted from 'Country Life' (21 October 1971), pp. 1062-1066; William Seymour's a...

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Mines, Mining, and Mining Communities

[1955-1979]

This file largely consists of photocopied articles and magazine and newspaper extracts and cuttings, including G. Bernard Wood's article, 'Relics of Rural Coal Mines', on mining remains in Yorkshire, ...

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Mining Communities

1964-1969

This file contains items collected by two Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) students, for use in thesis research on mining communities. The first set of items relates to Carole Woodal...

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Social Questions

[1960s-1970s]

This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items relating to labour and industrial unrest. This includes an ms. account, compiled from an original ms. source, of a Luddite attack on Cartwright...

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Stone Cottages at West Scrafton
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Stone Cottages at West Scrafton

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

1964

Stone cottages at West Scrafton ( Coverdale), formerly inhabited by quarrymen and colliers. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0328.

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Stone Cottages at West Scrafton
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Stone Cottages at West Scrafton

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

1964

Stone cottages at West Scrafton ( Coverdale), formerly inhabited by quarrymen and colliers. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0327.

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Horse Gin (Mining)

[1960s]

Horse gin, or horse engine, at the West Yorkshire Folk Museum, Shibden Hall, Halifax, with draft horse in tackle and male in working dress. The wooden wheel was driven by horse power in order to raise...

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Coal-Fired Range
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Coal-Fired Range

Mallinson, J Mrs

March 1967

Coal-fired range in Leslie Feather's shop, Haworth (West Yorkshire). The range is eight feet long, with two hotplates each two inches thick, and was made by Joseph Wright of Shipley. The heat is regul...

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