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Picture post

De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)

1938-1957

v.1, no.6 (1938) - v.54, no.4 (1952); June 1, 1957 Wanting: v.1, nos.9,11,13; v.2, nos.1-4,10-11,13; v.3, no.1; v.4, no.8-13; v.5, no.1-5,7-8,10,12; v.8, no.4,11; v.14, no.1,6,9; v.15, no.10; v.17, no...

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Reports on Mumming from the Industrial West Riding and Nottinghamshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1966

This file contains a typed paper by Tony Green giving information on mumming plays collected by himself and Mary Greenwald in West Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. This includes information collected fr...

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Restoration London

Picard, Liza (1927-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1997

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-318) and index.

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

[Collector announcement]; May Hard, recorded in Pymore on 13 June 1974; talks about her father's job as a blacksmith, shoes for horses and donkeys, cart repairs, making harrows, repairing/sharpening p...

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Sky and Weather

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains items relating to weatherlore, including an ms. paper compiled by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivist Margaret Jackson, containing weatherlore, with bibliog...

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The passionate exiles : Madame de Staël and Madame Récamier

Levaillant, Maurice (1883-1961); Barnes, Malcolm; Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)

1958

"Bibliographical note": pages 347-350, includes index. "Translated from the French original, Une amitié amoureuse. © Hachette, Paris, 1956."--Title page verso.

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; George Green, recorded in Haddenham on the 28 July 1975. A second male is also present, who asks some questions and provides general information. Talk of a local tale teller;...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Etheldrida Thompson, recorded in Witchford on the 14 July 1975; gives biographical details; employment as a nurse housemaid in Cambridge; parlour maid in Peterborough; [colle...

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Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

[1967-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Lincolnshire locations 10L4-15. The original recordings were made in 1952, 1953, 1960 and 1967. The date when this copy tape...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Alice Baker, recorded at Pymore on the 17 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A673r]; talks about March dust storms; floods of 1912 and 1950s; the condition of local (dro...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1974

[Collector announcement]; Mary Dawson, recorded in Doddington on the 8 July 1974; recollects her childhood in Doddington; marriage; children; skating matches; changes to the village; trandling for bir...

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Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1969

George Dawes [Dusty Dawes], recorded at home in Meysey Hampton; discusses the chorus to the songs 'Treat My Daughter Kindly' and 'Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups Do Grow'; talks about [?step/?...

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