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Total number of records: 76

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture60
Brotherton Collection5
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections3
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society3

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manners and customs76
culture47
community life41
occupations37
social life and customs35
english language - dialects34
nature30
agriculture25
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Hone, William (1780-1842)6
Hart, William5
Sullivan, Keith Frederick5
Tammivaara, Irmeli5
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)4
Green, Anthony E (1943-)4
Barry, Michael V (1935-)3
Bennett, Mrs3
Bennett, Ray3

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Archive Item

Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September/October 1973

Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about the Blunt family; book rescued from house following Janet Blunt's death; JB's family members and location of living members; Janet Blunt and ev...

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Sound Recordings, Hampshire and Wiltshire

Kylstra, Henk E; Wright, John T

1960-1961

William Blake, recorded in Hambledon by Henk Kylstra; talks about his work as a shepherd during the years 1919-1958; the village of Hambledon past and present; schooling; work as a shepherd boy on lea...

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Cecilia, or, Memoirs of an heiress (v.2)

Burney, Fanny (1752-1840)

1809

By Fanny Burney. Vol. 1: 317, [3] p.; v. 2: 326, [3] p.; v. 3: 318 p.; v. 4: 335, [1] p.

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Archive File

Druids-as-Wished-For

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1976

Offprint/extract from 'To Illustrate the Monuments: Essays in Archaeology Presented to Stuart Piggott on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday', edited by J. V. S. Megaw (London: Thames Hudson, 1976). San...

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Divination

1966-1967

This file contains items relating to aspects of divination, and includes photocopies of 19th century ms. horoscopes for Betty Snowden, Isaac Pearson, William Pearson and Elizabeth Pearson; a photocopy...

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Pace Egg and Mumming Plays, and Christmas Carols

Addy, Sidney Oldall (1848-1933)

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy (made in the early 1970s) of part of an ms. notebook, with printed extracts pasted in, compiled by Sidney Oldall Addy probably during the 1870s. This includes ms. notes ...

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An Account of the Home Life, Leisure-Time Activities and Community Traditions of the Northumbrian Coal Miner, Dealing Mainly with the Period 1900 to 1930

Fryer, Sheila

1964

A dissertation based on interviews with seven miners and ex-miners from Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne. The first of its three chapters contains a biographical note on, and the recollections o...

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Lore and Legend of the Western Fen Borderland

Toffler, Lenora Clare

1967

A study of the folklore of eleven informants living in villages to the north of Peterborough ( Crowland, Helpston, Whittlesey, Glinton and Maxey). The study comprises five chapters, with the first pre...

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Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick; Green, Anthony E (1943-)

29 November 1975

William Hart, recorded at home in Wilton by Tony Green [?daughter and son-in-law, Ray Bennett and Mrs. Ray Bennett, also present]. Conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A424r. WH sin...

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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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Ballads: General

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains the typed text of a song written about celebrations at Rothwell on the jubilee of George III (25 October 1809), collected by Peter Brears; a photostat copy of the text for 'England ...

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