Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 7 of 7 records

Total number of records: 7

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives6
Books and printed items1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
manners and customs7
community life5
nature4
culture3
land use3
occupations3
religion3
social life and customs3
agriculture2
architecture2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)1
Bradbury, Kathleen Frances1
Casbon, Herbert1
Chapman, George Fletcher1
Haddock, Christopher1
Haddock, Elsie1
Maduakor, Robert Obiatuegwu1
Marrison, Herbert1
Mcnay, Ian1
Tammivaara, Irmeli1

Archive Item

Old Rectory, Mirfield

[1960s]

Board-mounted photograph of close-up detail of the timber framing of the Old Rectory at Mirfield (West Yorkshire). The building is half-timbered and dates from the early 14th-century.

More details

Castleton Garland
Archive Item

Castleton Garland

McNay, Ian

September 1965

George Bramall and an unidentified male using ropes to construct the frame upon which a flower garland is fixed. The whole construction is worn by the Garland King during the Castleton Garland ceremon...

More details and larger image

Ijele Masquerade
Archive Item

Ijele Masquerade

Maduakor, Robert Obiatuegwu

1978

Card-mounted copy of a photograph taken ca. 1976 of an Ijele dancing at an Ijele Masquerade (Nigerian East Central State). The Ijele costume consists of a frame made of lightweight materials, which is...

More details and larger image


Archive File

The Derbyshire Well Dressings

Bradbury, Kathleen Frances

1971

A study of the well dressing custom observed in a number of Derbyshire villages. The first of three chapters includes sections on the origins and history of well dressing, and well dressings in litera...

More details

Conistone Survey Contact Prints: C
Archive Item

Conistone Survey Contact Prints: C

July 1971

Contact prints of photographs taken during a Survey of Vernacular Architecture around Conistone ( Wharfedale), undertaken by students on the Museums Association Diploma Curatorial Course in Folk Life ...

More details and larger image


Archive Print Item

Life in the English country cottage

Tinniswood, Adrian; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1995

Illustrations on endpapers. Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-213) and index. "The English cottage is an icon for our times. Whether a harmonious blend of timber-frame and thatch or g...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Christopher Haddock [ Albert Haddock's brother] and Elsie Haddock, recorded at Sutton Gault on the 22 July 1975; talk about wild mushrooms and mushroom picking; mushroom ketc...

More details