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Total number of records: 159
Count of Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Cookery Collection | 47 |
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 27 |
| Brotherton Collection | 19 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 5 |
| English Literature | 2 |
| John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History | 1 |
| Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society | 1 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 1 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 1 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) | 26 |
| Miller, Philip (1691-1771) | 14 |
| Chazelles, Laurent Marie De | 8 |
| Chazelles, Laurent Marie De (1724-1808) | 8 |
| Evelyn, John (1620-1706) | 8 |
| Laurence, John (1668-1732) | 7 |
| Bradley, Richard (1688-1732) | 6 |
| Davidson, H C | 6 |
| Davidson, H. C | 6 |
| Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009) | 5 |
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Dorothy Mary Leak correspondence and papers
Leak, Dorothy Mary (1903-1989)
1909-1989
Contents include: (1) Diaries; (2) Letters to Miss Leak; (3) Various documents relating to her life and professional career; (4) Gardening diaries from 1944 to 1987; (5) Accounts of her travels in Bri...
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.
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...
Questionnaire No.2, 1962 Correspondence (Extracted) Weatherlore
Whitfield, Jean
1962-1963
Individual responses to Jean Whitfield's request for help with her gardening folklore questionnaire, published in the journal 'Popular Gardening' and the newspapers the Yorkshire Evening Post and Newc...
Stonework
1969-1979
This file contains items relating to stone industries and related crafts, including a photocopy of the Appendix to Horace Harman's 'Buckinghamshire Dialect' (reprinted Wakefield: S. R. Publishers, 197...
Mr Benjamin Haigh's own valuation of his stock of garden produce consisting of fruit and nursery trees, also of herbs, plants, and flowers etc.
Haigh, Benjamin
1865
Loose sheet containing a further account is inserted
Gardening notebooks of Louisa Frances Pesel
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
c.1936-c.1942
The notebooks mostly contain notes on Louisa Frances Pesel's cultivation of irises in Hampshire but also brief notes on meetings of the White House Iris Club, ca.1936-ca.1942
Sound Recording, Glamorgan
Crook, Rosemary
22 February 1980
Ceridwen Thomas offers recollections of her childhood in early twentieth century Treorchy - World War One, housework, gardening; also, childbirth; parental discipline; miners' strikes; Rhondda cake; S...
Hugh Johnson's gardening companion : the principles and practice of the gardener's art
Johnson, Hugh (1939-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1996
Includes index.
A history of British gardening
Hadfield, Miles (1982); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1979
Originally published under title: Gardening in Britain. Hutchinson & Co., 1960. Plans on endpapers.
Green thoughts : a writer in the garden
Perényi, Eleanor (1918-2009); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1982
Originally published: New York : Random House, 1981.
Dialect recording in Wark, Northumberland
Lenihan, J M A
30 May 1939
[Side 1] Conversation between Ned and George about keeping bees, George comments 'a swarm in May's worth a load of hay', Ned talks about forking hay by hand, recalls prank of putting duck down chimney...