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LUNN, Philip (1886-1940)
1910-1919
Photocopies of: photograph of Moscow Football League team, 1910 (cutting from "Russkii Sport") /1/; D Dickinson "An Appeal Addressed to the British Colony of Petrograd and to Englishmen throughout Rus...
ARROW BOAT CLUB (ST PETERSBURG)
1990
Photographs of 2 tankard lids commemorating Arrow Boat Club four-oared race, St Petersburg, 1870 (R Butts, E Gibson, W E Hubbard, A W Raitt, B Wilding) /1-2/.
N: Sports, Games and Pastimes
1961-1976
This series contains items relating to amusements in the form of games, sports and pastimes. The subject matter includes sports and athletic games, traditional annual games, animal sports, and card an...
Popular Singing Traditions and Cultural Change in the Old North Riding of Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
1978
Ph.D. divided into five parts, twelve chapters. Following the Introduction, which gives an overview of folksong scholarship and tradition, the thesis contains chapters on the village of Ugthorpe where...
An Account of the Home Life, Leisure-Time Activities and Community Traditions of the Northumbrian Coal Miner, Dealing Mainly with the Period 1900 to 1930
Fryer, Sheila
1964
A dissertation based on interviews with seven miners and ex-miners from Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne. The first of its three chapters contains a biographical note on, and the recollections o...
The Making of a Cricket Bat
Moss, W N
1966
A dissertation which gives an account of the way a cricket bat is made, an outline of the development of the cricket bat and a comparison of past and present methods used in making a bat. Fieldwork wa...
The Coal Mining Community of Abram, Lancashire
Bauldie, J S
1970
A dissertation which focusses on the life of the miner away from his place of employment, and describes miners' recreational activities in the Lancashire village of Abram during the years 1900 to 1925...
Clogs. Their Social Aspects, with Particular Reference to Fighting and Dancing
Woolley, Hilary J
1976
A study comprising four chapters. The first presents the historical, functional and social context of wooden soled footwear, with sections on working clogs and dress clogs. Chapter Two considers the c...
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 ...
The Dialect of Golcar
Jacobson, Joanne
1974
M.A. project on one dialect speaker from Golcar, West Yorkshire . Analysis is made of material contained within a 34-minute tape recorded interview with Mr. Gledhill, made by Stanley Ellis in 1963. ...
Sports and Athletic Games
1961-1974
This file contains items relating to sports and games of athletic ability, skill, strength and endurance. This includes a copy of 'The Ancient Haxey Hood Game (An Ancestor of Football?)', by J. W. ff....
Games with Special Equipment
1968-1979
This file contains items relating to games played by children using special equipment, such as a ball or skipping rope. The file includes a photocopy of Bernard A. Barton's article, 'Let's Laik at Sum...