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Total number of records: 164

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Archives162
Books and printed items2

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture162
Brotherton Collection2

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agriculture164
occupations162
nature150
animals136
community life74
geology55
food51
culture50
manners and customs45
education37

Top 10: People and organisations

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Liman, Ingemar (1938-)57
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)40
Tammivaara, Irmeli15
Shaw, David H8
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)7
Barry, Michael V (1935-)6
Stigell, Ossi6
Russell, Ian5
Wakelin, Martyn F5
Wright, John T5

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From 1900162

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Up to 1999162

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Dictionarium botanicum : or, a botanical dictionary for the use of the curious in husbandry and gardening...[etc.] (v.2)

Bradley, Richard (1688-1732)

1728

First edition. Text printed in double columns, without pagination. The ornament on the last page of the appendix, v.2, bears the legend: "Imprim. Sam. Aris." With list of books printed for T. Wo...

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Dictionarium botanicum : or, a botanical dictionary for the use of the curious in husbandry and gardening...[etc.] (v.1)

Bradley, Richard (1688-1732)

1728

First edition. Text printed in double columns, without pagination. The ornament on the last page of the appendix, v.2, bears the legend: "Imprim. Sam. Aris." With list of books printed for T. Wo...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian; Howarth, Leslie

8 May 1973

Jack White and Mrs. Jack White in conversation at their home in the Stannington area of Sheffield. Talk of family members; informant's birthplace; Castleton Wakes; haytime; schooling at Lydgate in She...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

8 June 1972

Frank Hinchliffe in conversation at his home in Lodge Moor, Sheffield. Talks about farming (threshing, machinery, ploughing) during the 1940s and wartime; sings and discusses fragments of a number of ...

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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1965

Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). A farmer throws a sheep from the stone fold into the washpool.

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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

June 1965

Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). View from inside the fold of a farmer standing in the washpool to hold a sheep in and wash it.

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Gathering Sheep for Washing: Outgang Beck
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Gathering Sheep for Washing: Outgang Beck

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1965

Gathering sheep for washing in old sheep washing place on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). The sheep are being driven into the small stone fold, or fa'd, on the edge of the washpool.

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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1965

Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). A farmer throws a sheep from the fold into the washpool. 2 other sheep swim through the washpool.

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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1965

Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Farmers throw sheep from the stone fold into the washpool. 2 sheep swim through the pool.

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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1965

Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). A farmer throws a sheep from the stone fold into the washpool. Children sit and watch from the wall of the fold.

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Sound Recording, Hampshire

Wakelin, Martyn F

1964

Charles Sheppard, recorded in Bishop's Sutton; talks about working with pigs; rook starving [scaring] after the corn sown; scarecrows; service in the Rifle Brigade during World War One, in France; ret...

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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

June 1965

Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). View from inside the fold of a farmer swimming through the washpool. Werner Kissling can be seen taking photographs from the opposite ang...

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