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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture11
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agriculture18
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Hohberg, Wolfgang Helmhard Freiherr Von (1612-1688)3
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Kylstra, Henk E2
Lenihan, J M A2
Nichol, Willie2
Nicholl2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2
Simpson, Thomas2
Sullivan, Keith Frederick2
Thompson, William (1873-)2

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Sketch of 'The Good Shepherd'

c. 1830

An undated pencil sketch of 'The Good Shepherd' by Edward Petre Novello, mounted in a cardboard frame. The shepherd holds a staff in their proper left hand and a sheep in their right. The under eye is...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Read, Lancashire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

05 Mar 1954

[Side 1] Jim outlines typical year in sheep farming, incl. details of 'tupping' time [= mating time], use of 'raddle' [= red dye used to brand sheep], lambing time, 'provand' [= fodder], sale of fat l...

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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

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Pub. Virgilii Maronis Bucolicorum ecolgae decem : The bucolicks of Virgil

Virgil; Virgil; Virgil; Martyn, John (1699-1768); King, Edward; Greenwood, William (1769); Cole, B (fl. ca.1737-1751)

1749

First edition. Title in red and black; illustrations and maps engraved; head-piece. Two plates signed: B. Cole sculp.t. "Remarks... by the learned Edward King, Esq., in a letter dated from Milks...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 February 1975

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings [unidentified]; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife'; talks about and sings his version of 'My Grandfather's Clock...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

19 March 1976

Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', [first line: 'When I was a jolly young ploughboy'], 'Farmer's Boy' and [first line: 'Come with me to t...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

29 March 1963

Thomas Stephens, recorded at home in Altarnun; answers a selection of questions, put by Martyn Wakelin, from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey questionnaire; talks with Stanley Ellis about his first job;...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Hampshire

Kylstra, Henk E

1961

Mr. G. Shaw, recorded at home in Whiteparish; talks about domestic lighting; thatching (hay ricks, cottages); roods (measurement of length); walls for dwellings and materials used; mowing with a scyth...

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