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Total number of records: 41

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture28
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive13

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
health41
community life28
well-being28
education27
occupations25
culture21
food17
manners and customs17
english language - dialects16
animals15

Count of Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom6
Horsham, United Kingdom2
Cricklewood, United Kingdom1
Harrow, United Kingdom1
Sacremento, Usa1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Upton, Clive S4
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Houck, Charles L3
Morris, Patricia M3
Crook, Rosemary2
Dunn, Ginette2
Metcalf, Olive2
Savage, Priscilla (1881-1881)2
Aldous, Leonard1
Arnold, Jim1

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John Allen to Maurice de Sausmarez

5 Oct 1969

Handwritten letter from John Allen of the Department of Education and Science to Maurice de Sausmarez, noting his illness and that Allen is thinking of him.

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Robert Brazil to Maurice de Sausmarez

1968-1969

Six typewritten and handwritten letters from the lecturer Robert Brazil, then Head of Textiles at Goldsmiths, and his wife Margot to Jane and Maurice de Sausmarez, including congratulations on the bir...

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Sound Recordings, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Mr. Fisher of Thornhill, recorded in 1962; talks about working in a coal mine - hours of work, wages, scale picking (as a youngster); pushing tubs underground; describes the layout underground and the...

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Sound Recordings, Powys

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

[Collector announcement (Ellis)]; Mr. ?Richards, recorded outside in Llanafan-fawr [undated]; talks about the electricity supply to the area; fire grates in local houses; peat burning; local dwellings...

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Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

8 January 1980

Recording made in Llwynypia ; Edith Jones and Eunice King (both born and lived in Ystrad, Glamorgan); family biographies; describe domestic routine, washing/making clothes (childhood recollections of ...

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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

10 Jun 1980 - 15 Dec 1980

Jim Roche [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A087] talks about his Trade Union involvement as a Shop Steward in the Leeds clothing industry: industrial and social problems of members; church involvement in...

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Sound Recording, Isle of Man

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

November 1958

[Collector announcement]; Amanda Crellin, recorded in Ronague; talks about cancer; prevalent diseases in her youth; smoking; hospital; food and drink in her father's time; going to school barefoot; ma...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

11 September 1974

Priscilla Savage, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about the village Youth Hostel; her parents and siblings; food, diet and bread baking; own family and children; working in service; childhood in L...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

[September 1981]

Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; gives biographical details (born in the Bramley area of Leeds); recollections of baptism as a child; family; other Bramley families; Bra...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire,

3 February 1981

Ken Sutcliffe, recorded in his home in the Cookridge area of Leeds; talks about papers and books concerning World War Two bombers; occupied territories (Holland); photographs; [collector announcement]...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

October 1981

Dorothy Ibbotson, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; sings 'The Warrior's Little Boy' (learned from her grandmother), and talks about her attempts to trace the song's origins; gives biog...

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Sound Recording, Greater Manchester

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

[Collector announcement]; Wilf Morgan, butcher, recorded in Mossley [interview starts mid conversation]; talks about his experiences as a butcher; boning a piece of beef and cuts of beef; meat prices ...

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