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Total number of records: 102

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture90
Brotherton Collection4
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive4
Cookery Collection2
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1
Quaker Collection1

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health102
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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)14
Houck, Charles L5
Upton, Clive S4
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Foster, Philip3
Lenihan, J M A3
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Archive File

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 ...

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Digitised copy available on the Internet Archive as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library Project
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Digitised copy available on the Internet Archive as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library Project
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Digitised copy available on the Internet Archive as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library Project
Archive Print Item

Archive File

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...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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