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Survey of English Dialects recording in Sutton on the Hill, Derbyshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
May 1956
[Side 1] Bill talks about cutting and 'pleaching' [= repairing] hedges, lists different bushes and explains hedging techniques, describes farm work incl. working with horses and cattle, ditching, 'tha...
Ten practical discourses concerning earth and water, fire and air : as they relate to the growth of plants. With a collection of new discoveries for the improvement of land, either in the farm or garden
Bradley, Richard (1688-1732)
1727
Signatures: A⁴ B-N⁸ O⁴. Advertisements: 5 p. at end.
Husbandry and trade improv'd : being a collection of many valuable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c.; with a compleat catalogue of the several sorts of earths, and their proper product... as also full and exact histories of trades, as malting, brewing, &c. ... an account of the rivers of England, &c. and how far they may be made navigable; of weights and measures ... the vegetation of plants, &c (v.1)
Houghton, John (1640-1705); Bradley, Richard (1688-1732)
1727
Originally published in 583 weekly folio numbers, March 30, 1692-Sept. 24, 1703. Vol. 2 has title: A collection for the improvement of husbandry and trade.
Farm Courtyard
March 1965
Timber buildings around an old farm courtyard at the Norsk Folkemuseum (Norwegian Folk Museum) in Bygdøy, Oslo. The buildings are typical of Setesdal . According to a note in the slide index, the f...
Sound Recording
British Broadcasting Corporation
[1960s/1970s]
George Ewart Evans presents a radio programme entitled 'Horsepower and Magic' [BBC Home Service 1964-09-17 20:30], which includes horsemen from East Anglia and Scotland talking about the folklore and ...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1974
[Collector announcement]; Allan Pate, recorded in Witcham on the 11 July 1974 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A670r]; talks about Witcham Feast Week in November; local stories/beliefs associated with wi...
The agricultural and forestry possibilities of British Guiana: a dissertation; by James Charles MacMenemy
Macmenemy, James Charles
1949
Regional farming in seventeenth-century Yorkshire: a critical study of the use of peasants' inventories, by William Harwood Long
Long, William Harwood
1959
Some MS amendments. Original foliation varies.
Sound Recordings, Kent
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1958-1959
[Collector announcement]; Charles Joiner, recorded in Staple in December 1958; talks about storing apples in earth; first thatching job, aged fifteen/sixteen; describes thatch sewn onto barn roofs; hi...
Field Book 1779
1779?
Contains accounts of receipts and payments with indication of balance of profit or loss, field by field, in respect of livestock, oats, and various other payments, with final balance in profit