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Archive File

West Country Folklore Pamphlets

1969-1975

This file contains pamphlets from the 'West Country Folklore Series', edited by Theo Brown. The pamphlets in this file relate to the folklore of Dorset and Devon, although the series covers all counti...

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Yorkshire Abbeys

Taylor, Alfred

1963

This file contains articles from Alfred Taylor's 'Bygone Abbeys of Yorkshire'/ 'Abbeys and Priories of Yorkshire'/ 'Bygone Abbeys and Priories of Yorkshire' series, published in and extracted from the...

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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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Archive File

Calendar Days

1964-1972

This file contains items on calendar customs, including Valentine's Day. This includes a photocopy of typed extracts on local customs from essays on old Mansfield, written for a competition organised ...

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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 1974

[Collector announcement]; Allan Pate, recorded in Witcham on the 11 July 1974 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A670r]; talks about Witcham Feast Week in November; local stories/beliefs associated with wi...

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Archive Print part

Extracts from the black book of Warwick. To which are added Mr. Pegge's memoir on Guy Earl of Warwick, and Sir Thomas More's narrative of a religious frenzy at Coventry

More, Thomas Sir, Saint (1478-1535); Pegge, Samuel (1704-1796); Brown, Isabelle Kittson (1860-1928); Nichols, John (1745-1826); Carter, John (1748-1817)

MDCCLXXXIII [1783]

Final leaf is a singleton. "Price one shilling and six pence."--T.p. Half-title: Bibliotheca topographica Britannica. no. XVII. Containing I. Extracts from....II. Memoir on the story....III. Sir T...

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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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