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Total number of records: 74

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Archives63
Books and printed items11

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culture22
community life16
english language - dialects15
occupations11
buildings9
manners and customs9
nature9
animals7
food7
play7

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England33
Monmouthshire33
Cross Keys11
Llanfrechfa11
Newport11
Faro (Denmark)1
Hebrides (Scotland)1
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Shetland (Scotland)1
Vastmanlands Lan (Sweden)1

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Parry, David (1937-)48
Jones, Mr Reginald12
Price, Mrs Elizabeth10
Chas)9
Hemmings, Charles9
Jenkins, Mr Horace6
Parker, Jim6
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Hemmings, Mrs Elsie5
University College of Swansea4

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From 190072

Archive Item

Packing Skeps (Baskets)

Aston, Michael Geoffrey

1964

Finished wheeled Yorkshire packing skeps (large, wheeled baskets) being loaded onto the back of a lorry, at Burdekin's Baskets, Flushdyke, near Ossett (West Yorkshire).

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Primitivt fångstliv : några drag av primitivt liv på Hebriderna, Orkney- och Shetlands-öarna, Färöarna och Västmanöarna

Kjellberg, Sven T

1937

Offprint from Frän stenålder till Rokoko : Studier tillägnade Otto Rydbeck, den 25 Augusti 1937.

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Academic Correspondence File 35

1935-1937

Catford, John. Correspondence and other papers sent to Harold Orton from John Catford regarding the Linguistic Atlas of Scotland. 1 file. 1935-1937.

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Plough Stotts [Stots]
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Plough Stotts [Stots]

Ward, Olive

[1968-1969]

Copy of a photograph taken in 1937 of children (in costume and with a plough) participating in the Goathland Plough Stotts [Stots], Goathland (North Yorkshire). The teamster holds a whip.

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Norfolk Cart

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in 1937 of a Norfolk cart in a field at Wells (Somerset). The cart is open at the back. Mounted on Photo File card.

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Sword Dance Team
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Sword Dance Team

Ward, Olive

[1968-1969]

Copy of a photograph taken in 1937 of the Goathland Sword Dance Team in costume, Goathland (North Yorkshire). From left to right, the characters are the Captain, Tom, the Gentleman, the Lady, Betty an...

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Kersey Illustration

[ca. 1938]

Colour illustration of the village of Kersey (Survey of English Dialects (SED) location 22 Sf 5), reprinted from H. Munro Cautley's 'Suffolk Churches and Their Treasures', (Ipswich: Adlard, 1937).

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"Gypsy Caravan"

Guy, Eric

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken around 1937 of a brightly painted traditional Gypsy Traveller caravan, drawn along the road by two horses led by a man, in Hungerford (Berkshire). Two children can be seen i...

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"Gypsy Caravan"

Guy, Eric

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken around 1937 of a brightly painted traditional Gypsy Traveller caravan, drawn along the road by two horses led by a man, in Hungerford (Berkshire). Two children can be seen i...

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British fishing-boats and coastal craft (pt.1)

White, Ernest W; Science Museum

1950-1952

Based on G.S. Laird Clowes' British fishing and coastal craft, publ. 1937. Pt. 2 has title: Handbook of the collections illustrating British fishing-boats and coastal craft. Bibliography: pt. 1, p...

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Academic Correspondence File 54

1962-1975

Misc. Correspondence from P.J. Gardner, addressed to Clive Upton, regarding a dialect talk delivered to the Shipston-on-Stour and District Local History Society; between Harold Orton and Richard Gerbe...

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