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community life71
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culture58
agriculture48
war42
nature40
food39
english language - dialects38
manners and customs38
animals35

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Dunn, Ginette16
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)8
Barry, Michael V (1935-)5
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)4
Pasanen, Leena4
Webb, Percy4
Baldwin, John R3
Bond, Francis Keith3
Houck, Charles L3
Tammivaara, Irmeli3

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Mr. J. F. Bond [collector's father] talks about the experience of World War Two in Liverpool; Army volunteer (training in Perth) - posted to Normandy, through Europe to Berlin; riots in Trieste; his y...

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Christ Church, Crewe
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Christ Church, Crewe

Latham, Jean

April 1964

View of Christ Church, Crewe (Cheshire) from Prudential Corner, with the Salvation Army centre in the foreground.

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Christ Church, Crewe

Latham, Jean

April 1964

View of Christ Church, Crewe (Cheshire) from Prudential Corner, with the Salvation Army centre in the foreground.

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Borders of the Narrow Seas Map
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Borders of the Narrow Seas Map

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Copy of a map from an unidentified publication, showing the movement of the Danish armies in Northern France, Belgium and South-Eastern England in the late-9th century. The slide was probably created ...

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Blacksmiths and Farriers

Paxton, N Sally

1977

A dissertation which gives an account of the work of blacksmiths and farriers, including some historical background but mainly concentrating on their methods and practices and the state of the two cra...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

October 1974

Dick Woolnough, recorded at home in Snape during the 30th and 31st of October [woman and small child - ?daughter and grandson - also present]. Sings 'London Apprentice Boy'; comments/conversation; sin...

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The Rites of Passage of Baptism, Marriage and Death in Shotton Colliery

Hargreaves, Lesley

1982

A study of birth, marriage and death customs observed by the people of Shotton Colliery in the early part of the twentieth century, based on printed sources and recollections gathered by the collector...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire and Leicestershire

Paxton, N Sally

1976

Glen Brook recorded in conversation in his workshop in Healaugh, whilst working [on ?horseshoes]. Recorded 29 June 1976. [Tr. 1]

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire

Baldwin, John R

1969

Mrs. I. M. Brown and Mrs. Cotmore [?sisters], recorded in Oxford in 1969. Recitation of the words to 'I had a Little Donkey', and the monologues 'Sally and Her Sweetheart', and 'Little Boy and the Err...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Pasanen, Leena

August 1971

[Collector announcement]; Stanley Applett, a retired butcher, recorded in his home in Framsdenon the 3 August 1971; talks about his working life as a butcher; his apprenticeship and wages; joining the...

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War Verse

Shearman, Morgan John

1976

This file contains a photocopy of ms. pages from a war diary kept by Morgan John Shearman, a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps attached to the South Wales Borderers during World War One. The diar...

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