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Total number of records: 197

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives163
Books and printed items34

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture161
Brotherton Collection14
Leeds Russian Archive3
Cookery Collection2
English Literature1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
sports197
play162
community life122
culture92
occupations73
games72
english language - dialects57
folk music50
manners and customs49
nature48

Count of Place

PlaceCount
England6
Great Britain2
Russia1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)42
Sullivan, Keith Frederick23
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)14
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)11
Dunn, Ginette8
Lenihan, J M A7
Strutt, Joseph (1749-1802)6
Gallon, Luke5
White, John5
Hales, Phil4

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16001
From 17003
From 180013
From 1900175
From 20002

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 16991
Up to 17993
Up to 189913
Up to 1999175
Up to latest2

Archive Sub-collection

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...

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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/.

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Archive Series

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...

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Archive File

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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....

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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...

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