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culture86
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buildings40
play37
museums33
english language - dialects27
architecture25
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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)22
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)12
Rutter, John Tom6
Skansen (Open-Air Museum)6
Scott, William5
Bond, Francis Keith4
Nordiska Museet (Stockholm, Sweden)4
Mitchell, J3
Pearce, Ben3
Taylor, Barry Roy3

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Archive File

The Aire and Calder and Calder and Hebble Navigations, Past and Present

Babbidge, P A

1982

A dissertation which traces the evolution of a major commercial waterway, and describes the lives of the men who work, and have worked, on it (based on a number of fieldwork visits and interviews).

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The Lapps : guide to the exhibits in Nordiska Museet and at Skansen Open-air Museum

Manker, Ernst Mauritz (1893-1972); Nordiska museet (Stockholm, Sweden); Skansen (Open-air museum)

1962

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Clogs and Clog Making. With Reference to the Aire and Calder Valleys of the West Riding of Yorkshire

Moore, Vivienne E

1972

M.A. dissertation which provides a survey of clogs and clogmaking in the West Riding of Yorkshire (focussing on the industry in Airedale and the Calder Valley), both setting the trade and the article ...

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Traditional Tunes: A Collection of Ballad Airs Chiefly Obtained in Yorkshire and the South of Scotland: Together with their Appropriate Words from Broadsides and from Oral Tradition

Kidson, Frank (1855-1926)

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of Frank Kidson's compilation of ballad texts and tunes, largely collected in Yorkshire and Southern Scotland, published Oxford: Chas. Taphouse & Son, 1891 (xvi, 17-174 ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

22 December 1974

Open-air carol service, with brass band accompaniment, recorded in Skelmanthorpe.

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

[1981]

[Announcement, ? by camera operator]; recording of a Committee meeting of the Leeds branch of the Air Gunners' Association, at the British Legion; and as part of filming for a film on British air gunn...

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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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Farmhouse (Sweden)
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Farmhouse (Sweden)

January 1965

View of a timber farmhouse at the open-air Upplandsmuseet, Gamla Uppsala (Sweden).

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Brass Band
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Brass Band

[1970s]

Brass band, in uniform, performing in the open air at an unknown event, at an unidentified location in the Yorkshire Dales. People attending the event visible in the background.

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Brass Band
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Brass Band

[1970s]

Brass band performing in uniform in the open air at an unidentified location in North Yorkshire(?). Dry stone wall in foreground; upland landscape in background.

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Harrows
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Harrows

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

December 1974

Harrows on display outside a farmhouse at the open-air Village Museum in Bucharest. Mounted on Photo File card.

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