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Total number of records: 46

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health46
persons46
well-being46
community life27
culture27
manners and customs25
occupations20
food19
social life and customs17
english language - dialects16

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Crook, Rosemary3
Dunn, Ginette3
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Morris, Patricia M3
Upton, Clive S3
Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)2
Metcalf, Olive2
Savage, Priscilla (1881-1881)2
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Bird, Elizabeth1

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Patterns and Perception of Menstrual Bleeding in Ten Regions

University of Exeter. Department of Sociology. Family Planning Research Unit

1975

This file contains a study on cross-cultural perceptions of menstrual bleeding, conducted by researchers at the Family Planning Research Unit at Exeter University, on behalf of the World Health Organi...

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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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Folk Medicine

Brook, Josephine

1964

A collection of traditional remedies gathered in a survey of five people living in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. The remedies are arranged in four chapters, the first concerning prevention (use of onions...

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Folk Medicine in the Wirral Area

Willan, Susan

1974

An investigation of the folk remedies known by people living on the Wirral peninsula on Merseyside (not all of whom were born and brought up in the area). The Introduction describes the place of tradi...

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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.

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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.

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Essex, Middlesex and London Responses: Book VI

[1960s]

Collated responses from locations in Essex, Middlesex and London to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Questionnaire Book VI: The Human Body.

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Sound Recording, West Midlands

Raven, Jon

July 1967

Cecilia Costello, recorded singing and in conversation at home in Birmingham; sings/recites the words to a large number of popular songs, many of which are fragments only. She talks about old songs an...

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Ethnographical Survey of the United Kingdom

British Association for the Advancement of Science

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains photocopies of items from the Reports of the 65th, 66th and 67th meetings of the British Association ( 1895-1897). The photocopies contain the 3rd, 4th and 5th reports of the Associ...

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SED Word Map: Chaps
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SED Word Map: Chaps

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in typescript, for SED question VI.7.3, Chaps (on hands), mapping responses Cracks, Keens, Chaps, Hacks and Charks.

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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...

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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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