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Total number of records: 569
Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Cookery Collection | 464 |
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 58 |
| Brotherton Collection | 13 |
| John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History | 2 |
| Liddle Collection | 2 |
| English Literature | 1 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 1 |
| Leeds Animation Workshop | 1 |
| Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society | 1 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 1 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828) | 32 |
| Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) | 23 |
| Hammerton, John Alexander | 14 |
| Hammerton, Sir John Alexander (1871-1949) | 14 |
| Beeton, Mrs (1836-1865) | 11 |
| Bradley, Martha | 10 |
| Hodgkin, John (Bibliographer) | 9 |
| Philp, Robert Kemp (1819-1882) | 9 |
| Slinn, Gillian A | 9 |
| Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637) | 8 |
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B: Livelihood and Household Support
1951-1982
This series contains items largely relating to traditional occupations and industries, and home economics.
Housekeeping and Associated Customs
1961-1982
This subseries contains items on housekeeping and domestic customs. The subjects represented include general housekeeping and domestic arrangements, fires and ovens, lighting, milk foods (i.e. butter ...
Lace: An Enquiry into the Art of Making Lace Either by Hand or Machine with Particular Reference to the Vocabulary and Folklore of both Industries
Slinn, Gillian A
1964
A dissertation on lacemaking, with particular reference to the industry in Nottingham. The first chapter presents a general history of lacemaking, whilst the second focusses on pillow lace, with secti...
Women's Domestic Crafts in Thornaby
Schrut, Judith Lynne
1977
M.A. thesis written in four parts. The first provides background material to the study, including introductory remarks, some historical background to women's domestic crafts and a discussion of method...
Women of the Rhondda Valleys Between the Wars
Crook, Rosemary
1980
M.A. study of the women of the Rhondda Valleys and their roles as wife, mother and neighbour, on both a practical level in terms of physical comfort and support, and on an abstract level in terms of p...
Glimpses of Industrial Bradford
Fieldhouse, Elizabeth Mary
1972
A study comprising six sections. The Introduction presents a history of the woollen and worsted industries, whilst the second section outlines phases in industrial development, from the guild and dome...
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 ...
Domestic Life in Rural Suffolk
Niccolls, Sharon
1982
A dissertation which analyses continuity and change in domestic customs and traditions in rural Suffolk, in the fifty years to 1982. The first of four chapters focusses on the housewife, and contains ...
MACLEOD, EMILY
1903-1919, 1926
17 manuscript letters to her daughter Elizabeth (Betty), with typescript summary notes and extracts (16 Feb 1917-21 Mar 1919); Picture postcard of the 1st Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge (nd); 2 c...
A Grammar of the Dialect of Addingham in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Moody, Frederick William
1950
A study of the dialect spoken in Addingham and its immediate neighbourhood in the late 1940s, based on fieldwork data collected from eight principal informants. An Introduction presents information on...
Swaledale Boundary Dispute and Other Papers
1859-1869
Original ms. papers, in multiple hands. The principle manuscript in this file (23 leaves) relates to a 19th century boundary dispute in Swaledale. The dispute relates to the enclosure of lands in the ...