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Total number of records: 7

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture3
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
community life2
culture2
agriculture1
attitudes1
education1
english language - dialects1
entertainment events1
folklore1
manners and customs1
mines and mineral resources1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Warmfield; Yorkshire West Riding1
Yorkshire1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Bradford, Edward1
Chapman-Andrews, Edwin A1
Levison, Bob1
Robert1
Sewell, William1
Waters, Bob1
Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966)1
Webb, Charlie1
Wright, Peter1

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From 18001
From 19005

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Up to 19995

Archive Collection

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Hockley Heath, Warwickshire

13 Jun 1951

[Side 1] William recalls ploughing with horses as young boy, describes working in brickyard aged 13, discusses working conditions and wages, talks about growing own herbs for medicinal use, tells anec...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Ellington, Northumberland. Survey of English Dialects recording in Binfield Heath, Oxfordshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

Feb 1953

Side 1 is Ellington recording (12 Feb 1953). Side 2 is Binfield Heath recording (24 Feb 1953).[Side 1]Bob Levison describes working as farm worker aged 12 to 17, then working in mine for 40 years, com...

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NOTES, PLANS, DRAWINGS AND CORRESPONDENCE FOR VARIOUS PUBLISHED ARTICLES BY PETER C D BREARS

c1960-1982

Including work relating to Clarke Hall, Wakefield, Heath Old Hall, Hatfeild Hall, Stanley, Wakefield, Shibden Hall, Southowram, Halifax, Wakefield cathedral and Aldborough church, N.Yorkshire; also i...

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: YORKSHIRE COLLECTIONS

1827

Comprising a small book lettered "Radcliffe, Yorkshire Collections". It contains a number of extracts from Dodsworth's mss, monumental inscriptions in Featherstone Church and extracts from the pari...

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Warwickshire Response Books

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wright, Peter

1951-1957

Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Warwickshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were ...

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Evelyn Waugh, autograph letters and manuscripts, including the manuscript of 'Vile Bodies', with related material.

Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966)

1912-1993

Comprises the following items: (1) Carbon typescript with autograph manuscript title-page of Volume 1 of 'The Pistol Troop magazine', compiled by Waugh when a child, 1912; (2) Mimeographed typescript ...

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