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Wooden Cart: Romania
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Wooden Cart: Romania

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

December 1974

Three males (one just visible on back of the cart), moving domestic furniture on a horse-drawn wooden cart, Rasinari (Romania). The wheels are fitted with rubber car tyres. Mounted on Photo File card ...

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Sound Recording, [Location Unknown]

Bell, Brigid M

24 December 1978

[Collector announcement]; collector's family recorded in conversation whilst eating Christmas Eve supper; discussion covers the food served, Prince Charles' potential bride, Monaco royal family; Luxem...

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"Gypsy Camp"

Hucklebridge, John

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in 1960, of a temporary Gypsy Traveller encampment on a roadside near Glastonbury (Somerset). Two bowed caravans, and two trailer carts are pulled up on the verge. A woman s...

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Sedan Chair

[1970s]

Photographic postcard from the West Yorkshire Folk Museum, Shibden Hall, Halifax. The postcard shows a woman in period costume, sitting in a sedan chair which dates from ca. 1790. The door of the seda...

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Gardening Questionnaire Correspondence

Whitfield, Jean

1962-1963

Letters sent to Jean Whitfield from newspapers, journals and magazine editors regarding her research, and from individuals responding to her requests for help posted through these channels. This relat...

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"Lappish Caravan"

March 1965

Display showing a Sami reindeer caravan, or rajd, at the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm (Sweden). The display shows a dog and a Sami woman on foot, leading 2 reindeers.

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"Gypsy Camp"

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the early 20th century of a mother and her two children in a small Gypsy Traveller encampment at an unknown location, possibly in Herefordshire. Mounted on Photo File car...

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Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

14 January 1981

Leslie Rosen talks about the 1970 textile strike in Leeds, and his involvement; describes background to the strike (high rate of work for low pay, disparity in male/female pay rises) and knock-on effe...

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Dialect recording in Lowick, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

Jul 1939

[Side 1] Jack and Bill talk about gardening, discuss 'teddies' [= potato] crop, onions, roses, mushrooms, cabbages, Brussels sprouts, broccoli. [Side 2] Jack and Bill reminisce about schooldays (frequ...

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The Effect of Tourism on a Highland Culture: A Study of Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan

Fisher, Nora M M

1976

A dissertation comprising five chapters. The first presents a brief history and description of the village of Kilchoan on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. The second describes the old culture of the villag...

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Education - Miscellaneous

1970-1975

This file contains a photocopy of a typed paper listing details of oral history projects in Great Britain and Ireland, compiled by David Lance of the Imperial War Museum (December 1975), 17 pp.; and a...

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An Account of the Phonology of the Living Dialect of Warley in the West Riding of Yorkshire

Handscombe, Brenda

1961

A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Warley Town, in the old West Riding of Yorkshire. Data was collected from five local informants, interviewed over three periods in 1959 and 1960. An i...

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