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West Midlands Responses: Book VI, Part 10
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VI, Part 10: The Foot. Includes questions VI.10.1 Foot - VI.10.10 Feet.
West Midlands Responses: Book VI, Part 12
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VI, Part 12: General Diseases. Includes questions VI.12.1 Measles - VI.12.5 Worst.
West Midlands Responses: Book VI, Part 13
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VI, Part 13: Physical States. Includes questions VI.13.1 Well/Ill/Sick - VI.13. 10 Thirsty.
West Midlands Responses: Book VI, Part 13
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VI, Part 13. Includes questions VI.13.11 Drunk/Drunken - VI.13.20 Naked.
The Rites of Passage of Baptism, Marriage and Death in Shotton Colliery
Hargreaves, Lesley
1982
A study of birth, marriage and death customs observed by the people of Shotton Colliery in the early part of the twentieth century, based on printed sources and recollections gathered by the collector...
De conservanda bona valetudine
Arnaldus de Villanova (1311); Joannes de Mediolano; Crell, Jacob; Otho Cremonensis; Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Curio, Johannes (1561)
1553
The Latin verses which have been attributed to Joannes de Mediolano are accompanied by the commentary of Arnaldus de Villanova.
Farming Traditions in South Shropshire
Gwilliam, K Sheila
1967
A thesis based on the experiences of the collector's family, farming an area near Clun in Shropshire.
SED Page: Foot/Feet (Northern Counties)
[1960s-mid-1970s]
Page 666 (-top page 667) of Part 2 of the SED Northern Counties Basic Material volume, listing responses to SED question VI.10.1, Foot/Feet, from informants in the six Northern Counties and the Isle o...
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.
Devils, Saints and Heroes: A Collection of Stories, Customs and Beliefs from Bute, Arran and the Cumbraes
Clark, Elizabeth S M
1969
A collection of some of the customs, beliefs and narratives from four Scottish islands, Great Cumbrae, Little Cumbrae , Arran and Bute, gathered from printed sources and interviews with selected inhab...
Novello Cowden Clarke
1739-1966
The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...
Five Aspects of Woman in North-West Galician Rural Society
Davenport, H
1975
M.A. thesis (School of Special Studies in Spanish) on certain roles of the woman within rural society in the north-west region of Galicia. Chapters cover the physical geographical and social condition...