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Concert Party
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Concert Party

[1970s]

Copy of a photographic postcard dating from around 1916/1917, of an all-female concert party group dressed in pierrot-like costumes. The women are thought to be Miss Lena Ashwell's Concert Party (poss...

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Tutte le opere di Nicolo Machiavelli cittadino et secretario Fiorentino : divise in v. parti, et de nuovo con somma accuratezza ristampate

Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469-1527)

M.D.L

Signatures: *2 [dagger]⁴, A-Xx⁴, **², a-o⁴, p², ã⁴, ẽ⁴, a-z⁴, 2a-2p⁴, 3a-3x⁴, 4a-4x⁴, 4y² ([dagger]2 signed a2; ẽ4 and 4y2 blank). The first issue as described by Gamba, wi...

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Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire

Sutton, Diane

2 Jan 1979 - 4 Jan 1979

Marjorie Sutton [collector's grandmother] and Irvin Sutton [collector's father] discuss pig-killing at Christmas; Lincoln butter market - travelling from Wragby to sell produce; Christmas parties - ga...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Reed [location not given] talks about his family; farming for 54 years; ploughing with horses; his role as Church Warden and the role of the Church Council; reference to Lord Sidmouth and Lady Sid...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

7 August 1972

George Hancock recorded in conversation at home, Sheephill Farm, in the Ringinglow area of Sheffield. Mrs. George Hancock also contributes. Talk of (dairy) farming; Penistone and Bakewell markets; alt...

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Sound Recordings, [Cambridgeshire]

Lyons, Margaret

Dec 1978

[Collector announcement]; collector's grandmother [ recorded in Cambridgeshire]; offers childhood recollections of Christmas in the 1910s/1920s - presents, food and drink, supper, singsongs, games (ch...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

2 April 1976

Frank Raw, recorded at home in Danby with his wife, talks about the village; the decline of the young population and job opportunities in the Yorkshire Dales; changes in farming methods (mechanisation...

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Sound Recordings, Shropshire

Hubbard, Wendy E

October-November 1958

[Collector announcement]; William Moore, [?recorded in Albrighton (Shropshire)], talks about his father's haulage business; harvesting; the weather; his father; a motorbike; an anecdote about retrievi...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Cooke, Jane A

[1979]

Mrs. Wood, recorded in Birdsedge; gives biographical details and information on her schooling in Ridgeway, Derbyshire, and Sheffield; describes the school at Ridgeway and playtimes (in the mid 1940s);...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

27 June 1975

Wicketts Richardson, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about visiting the Ship Inn with his father; his father's fiddle playing; Saturday nights at the Ship; being Master of Ceremonies and calling o...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

October 1974

Lenny Savage, recorded at home in Snape on the 1 October 1974; talks about the musician Jimmy Meadows [LS's brother-in-law]; Mrs. Savage's childhood on a dairy farm; the singer Velvet Brightwell [fath...

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