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Total number of records: 59

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture56
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1

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manners and customs59
community life48
culture41
occupations38
nature36
agriculture34
social life and customs30
food29
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religion28

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Tammivaara, Irmeli10
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)6
Sullivan, Keith Frederick4
Barry, Michael V (1935-)3
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3
Dunn, Ginette3
Palmer, Kingsley3
Panheinen, Ossi3
Baker, Alice2
Baker, Charles Albert2

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London's old Latin quarter; being an account of Tottenham Court road and its immediate surroundings

Chancellor, E Beresford (1868-1937); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1930]

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Wedding Reception, Leeds (West Yorkshire)

Neale, Brenda Ann

1977

Wedding reception at Harehills Working Men's Club, Cowper Road, Leeds, 26 February 1977.

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English country life, 1780-1830

Bovill, E W; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1962

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-256) and index.

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Sound Recording, Dorset

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Bill Lewis, recorded in Netherbury; talks about farm work; horse husbandry; haymaking; recollections of the village of his childhood; roads; traffic (horses and carts); describes rock breaking with ex...

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Altarnun (Cornwall)
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Altarnun (Cornwall)

Voitl, Herbert

[1960s]

View along the road into Altarnun (Cornwall), showing dwelling houses and the Church of St. Nonna. Survey of English Dialects (SED) locality 36/2.

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Portesham (Dorset)
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Portesham (Dorset)

Voitl, Herbert

[1960s]

View looking along the main road towards the Church of St. Peter at Portesham (Dorset), with stone dwelling houses on the left. Survey of English Dialects (SED) locality 38/4.

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Wakelin, Martyn F; Tilling, Philip M (1938-)

July 1963

Mr. N. Cox, recorded in St Cleer; talks about animal (bullock) husbandry; winter feed; lambing time; moor cattle, allowed to roam free within certain boundaries, owned by commoners who pay for commone...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

Margaret Howell, recorded at home in Snape on the 3 October 1974. General conversation covering song sheets, her sons, Christmas carols, remembering a particular song and her health; sings 'On the Ban...

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Sound Recordings, [Devon]

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Collins [location not given] talks about flour milling; flour mill and working conditions; milling machinery and processes; cider; wages and working conditions; wages on leaving school; Christmas;...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Wally Hull, recorded at Little Downham on the 15 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A672r]; talks about winter weather; skating and champion skaters; his work as a postm...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

[1970-1971]

George Rispin and Miss Brown relate various anecdotes concerning unidentified noises, the Devil, Bouthwaite Hall, haunting at High Lofthouse, local preachers; also talk of a witch's chimney seat, glas...

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