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The Leeds Wash-Houses: A Study of Urban Folk Life
Wilson, Janet Elizabeth
1976
A study of wash-houses in Leeds, based on information gathered from official handbooks and annual reports, newspaper articles and interviews with women using wash-houses (some also conducted in their ...
Life and how to make the most of it : an address at St. James's Hall
Foster, Philip
1880
At head of title: "Revised by the author".
Life and how to make the most of it : an address at St. James's Hall
Foster, Philip
1880
At head of title: "Revised by the author".
Life and how to make the most of it : an address at St. James's Hall
Foster, Philip
1880
At head of title: "Revised by the author".
Ageing, Needs and Nutrition: Pilot Questionnaire, Needs and the Individual Life History
Johnson, Malcolm
1978
This file contains a copy of a pilot questionnaire compiled for Malcolm Johnson's 'Ageing, Needs and Nutrition Study', conducted at the Nuffield Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Leeds...
Monthly observations for the preserving of health : with a long and comfortable life, in this our pilgrimage on earth; but more particularly for the spring and summer seasons
Tryon, Thomas (1634-1703)
1688
Phylotheus Physiologus is a pseudonym of Thomas Tryon.
Why die?
Sykes, M C
1903
Contents: 1. Life and death. -- 2. Life and death. -- 3. Alcohol. -- 4. Habitations and dwellings. -- 5. Exercise. -- 6. Dress. -- 7. Smoking. -- 8. Old age. -- Diet for the obese.
The temperate man, or the right way of preserving life and health, together with soundness of the senses, judgement, and memory unto extream old age : in three treatises
Lessius, Leonardus (1554-1623); Cornaro, Luigi (1475-1566); Landi, Ortensio (1512-1553); Herbert, George (1593-1633); Ferrar, Nicholas (1592-1637); Smith, Timothy
1678
Advertisement on p. [2] at beginning. Preface signed "T.S." suggests Timothy Smith as translator; N.U.C. gives translator of first and third parts as Nicholas Ferrar.
The Dwelling House: Rooms, Fittings, Utilities, Etc.
1969-1979
This file contains items on various aspects of the dwelling house, with a focus on fittings and equipment and domestic utilities. This includes an article by Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby on farm kit...
Snuff
1961-1973
This file contains items on snuff, snuff production and the taking of snuff, including a photocopy of 'Snuff and the Story of Snuff-Taking' (Sheffield: J. & H. Wilson Ltd, [undated]); a photocopy of a...
Student Folklore Dossiers
1971-1982
Student folklore dossiers, variously subtitled Scheme B - Folk Life 1: First Term Exercise, and Folk Life Exercise: First Term. Each compilation includes the student's biographical details, and items ...
Sound Recording, North Lincolnshire
Haldenby, Cynthia
October 1958
George Smith, recorded in South Ferriby; talks about his working life (hours, accidents, conditions), including thirty years in a brickyard, at Barton-upon-Humber cement works and in Hull; accidents a...