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Total number of records: 1729
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| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 1213 |
| Brotherton Collection | 82 |
| Cookery Collection | 45 |
| Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society | 21 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 17 |
| Novello Cowden Clarke Collection | 9 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 8 |
| English Literature | 7 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 4 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 4 |
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Thomas Askren farm Archive
Askren, Thomas
1835-1871
A collection of diaries and account books, dating from 1835 to 1871.
William A. Wood (land agents) Archive
Wood, William A
1868-1960
Ledgers containing valuations of farms, some valuations contain inventories of domestic spaces alongside the agricultural inventories. Some ledgers include crop rotation paterns and some dispersed far...
Questionnaire Response Books
1950-1961
This subseries contains the original response books in which the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers recorded informants' responses to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. A response book exists f...
Farms
1954-1979
This subseries contains items relating to farmhouses and the various types of buildings associated with and found on farms. This includes a file of magazine cuttings and articles on various aspects of...
Care and Management of Livestock
1957-1973
This subseries contains items relating to the care and management of livestock on farms, including papers, and magazine and newspaper cuttings (chiefly from 'Country Life'), which focus largely on hor...
Agriculture
1964-1979
This subseries contains items relating to aspects of farming and farming life. The subject matter includes historical accounts and reminiscences of traditional farming life and activities, including M...
Folklore Survey (Goathland)
Green, R J
1963
A fieldwork notebook containing items of folklore collected during July 1963 in Goathland, North Yorkshire, from sixteen informants. For each informant, a name and address are given, and the item coll...
A Survey of the Farm Houses and Their Yard Buildings in the Parish of Moretonhampstead, Devon
Denny, Elizabeth
1972
A survey of thirty-two farm houses and attached yard buildings which provides a description of the vernacular architecture of the parish of Moretonhampstead in Devon. The collector describes the area,...
Examples of Vernacular Architecture in the Parish of Dethick, Lea and Holloway, Derbyshire
Wright, Fiona J
1980
A study of vernacular architecture in a Derbyshire parish containing the settlements of Dethick, Lea, Holloway and Lea Bridge. Sections cover methodology, a glossary of architectural terms, the backgr...
The Farmer Cider-Maker in North and Central Somerset
Coleman, D N
1966
A thesis concerned with those Somerset cider-makers who combine cider-making with farming activities. The core of the study is the description of processes and equipment based on fieldwork carried out...
The Language of the Meat Trade: A Survey of Terms Used by a Selected Sample of Butchers in the United Kingdom
Upton, Clive Stanley
1977
Ph.D. thesis containing seven chapters and three appendices, presenting the findings of an enquiry into the technical lexicon of the meat trade of the United Kingdom which was carried out between 1973...
Wood-Turning in the West Pennines
Earnshaw, David R
1966
A dissertation covering the development of three Lancashire family and village trades on the edge of the West Pennines. The three wood-turning firms studied are H. J. Berry and Sons Limited of Chippin...