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Social Intercourse
1967-1972
This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to drinking and inns/public houses. This includes James Stevens Curl's article on gin palaces and their disappearance, extracted ...
Social Questions
[1960s-1970s]
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items relating to labour and industrial unrest. This includes an ms. account, compiled from an original ms. source, of a Luddite attack on Cartwright...
Regional Social Histories
1969-1982
This subseries contains items relating largely to the social history of specific areas, including details of folk custom. Of the subseries' eight component parts, six are photocopies of original manus...
Artificial sunshine : a social history of domestic lighting
Dillon, Maureen; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-210) and index. Fire and firelight -- Rushlights and tallows -- Wax candles -- Lighting by oil -- Lighting by gas -- Lighting by electricity.
Towards a Methodology of the Study of Folk-Life: With Special Reference to the Kosovo Epic Cycle in its Social and Historical Context
Martin, Allan
1970
M.A. study containing chapters on the development of folklore study and the problem posed by this development, the possibility of change in the present study of folklore and an approach to a case stud...
Histoire philosophique du genre humain; ou, L'homme considéré sous ses rapports religieux et politiques dans l'état social, à toutes les époques et chez les différents peuples de la terre : Précédée d'une dissertation introductive sur les motifs et l'objet de cet ouvrage (v.1)
Fabre d'Olivet, Antoine (1767-1825); Sédir, Paul (1871-1926)
1910
"La lre édition de cet ouvrage (1822) porte comme titre: De l'état social de l'homme, etc., et la seconde (1824): Histoire philosophique du genre humain, etc."--Note de l'éditeur, v. 1, leaf follow...
Histoire philosophique du genre humain; ou, L'homme considéré sous ses rapports religieux et politiques dans l'état social, à toutes les époques et chez les différents peuples de la terre : Précédée d'une dissertation introductive sur les motifs et l'objet de cet ouvrage (v.2)
Fabre d'Olivet, Antoine (1767-1825); Sédir, Paul (1871-1926)
1910
"La lre édition de cet ouvrage (1822) porte comme titre: De l'état social de l'homme, etc., et la seconde (1824): Histoire philosophique du genre humain, etc."--Note de l'éditeur, v. 1, leaf follow...
The Oral History and Traditions of the Lancashire Textile Workers
Taylor, Monica
1972
A study of some features of working, domestic and recreational life in the cotton town of Haslingden in Lancashire, in the early part of the twentieth century. The description of such aspects is based...
Popular Belief in Leicester
Edge, Christine
1965
A study of the folklore of people living in Leicester, based on interviews with friends, acquaintances and other informants, including residents of a local Old Peoples' Home. The study contains six ch...
Ollier, Edmund to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
1871-1881
Handwritten letters from the journalist and writer Edmund Ollier to Mary Cowden Clarke, concerning his work and travels, her happiness about his notices of her work on Chaucer in the Daily News, her g...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Bergal, Nancy Ann
27 January 1980
Peter Thorp, recorded at home in Leeds; talks about his interest in folk music; carol singing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day morning in Leeds - tradition declined due to slum clearances, break up ...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
11 September 1976
[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; talks about living in the village; his time away and life during World War Two (air raids); his MBE for services to archaeo...