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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...
Christ Church, Crewe
Latham, Jean
April 1964
View of Christ Church, Crewe (Cheshire) from Prudential Corner, with the Salvation Army centre in the foreground.
Christ Church, Crewe
Latham, Jean
April 1964
View of Christ Church, Crewe (Cheshire) from Prudential Corner, with the Salvation Army centre in the foreground.
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 ...
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...
Soldier and sailor words and phrases : including slang of the trenches and the Air Force; British and American war-words and service terms and expressions in everyday use; nicknames, sobriquets, and titles of regiments, with their origins; the Battle-Honours of the Great War awarded to the British Army
Fraser, Edward; Gibbons, John (1882-1949)
1925
"This book was primarily designed as a dictionary of war slang at the instance of the authorities of the Imperial War Museum..."--Prefatory note.
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...
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...
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]
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...
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...
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...