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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)1
Calvert, George1
Edge, Christine1
Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908-2006)1
Gregory, Alexis1
Hargreaves, Janet1
Jay, Catharine1

Archive File

Current Superstitions Television Script

Jay, Catharine

[1970s]

This file contains a transcript of television recordings made for a programme on contemporary popular superstitions and beliefs. The main part of the transcript is typed, and consists of eight rolls o...

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The Role of the Public House in an Urban Environment

Hargreaves, Janet

1979

A study which examines the importance of public house visiting as a major leisure time activity, the pub as the centre of a community, and the customs and attitudes associated with the pub within an a...

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Sound Recording, Leicester

Edge, Christine

1965

Various informants talk of Cat Anna ( Leicester woman regarded as a witch), a secret tunnel used by Lady Jane Grey, Leicester Castle, witch burnings, divination (future husband, sex of unborn baby); C...

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The Calvert Manuscript

Calvert, George

[1960s-1970s]

Photocopy of a manuscript compiled by George Calvert of Kirkby Moorside, and completed by his son, Alfred Calvert, for Sir Martin Stapleton. The original manuscript (dated 1823) consists of a collecti...

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Easter Witch
Archive Item

Easter Witch

April 1965

Young girl dressed up as an Easter Witch, Hög (Varmlands Lan, Sweden). Her costume consists of a head scarf, skirt and apron, boots, yellow embroidered shawl, and a basket. Many Swedish children dr...

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The gilded age : the super-rich of the Edwardian era

Gregory, Alexis; Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908-2006); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1993

Published in New York 1993 with title: Families of fortune.

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