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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture13
Brotherton Collection2
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education20
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Tammivaara, Irmeli2
Barnes, John1
Bridgement, Bertram1
Bruff, Harold J L1
Bulmer, A Gillian1
Butler, Nicholas Murray1
Butler, Nicholas Murray (1862-1947)1
Cordwent, Mr1
Dallyn, Mr1
Dawson, Mary1

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Archive Sub-collection

JOHNSON, Louis (1920-1996)

[1943], 1954-1959, 2002

Intourist (Inturist) brochures (tourist routes, tour programmes, Black Sea, Caucasus, Minsk, Moscow, Urals) /1-9/. Brochures on Abastumani, Bakuriani, Batumi, Borzhomi, Dzhava, Gagra, Gudauta, Kobulet...

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Archive File

Article "The intellectual ferment in India".

1920

"The substance of an address given at the Church House, Westminster, June 8, 1920, during the Missionary week arranged by the Central Board of Missions". Within 'The East and the West', n. 72, vol. 18...

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Archive File

Article "Education in England: The churches and the schools"

1920

Extracted from the journal 'Indian Education: a monthly record' (June, 1920), pp. 485-90 Item 105 in Pickering 6 pp.

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Archive Item

Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Oldroyd, Charles H

6 Sep 1976 - 9 Sep 1976

Fred Longthorne, of Greenhow Hill, talks about lead mining in Nidderdale, and Greenhow Hill in particular: tools, local mines, clothing, shoes, discovering Stump Cross Caverns; mining career in the 19...

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Archive Sub-series

Towns

1968-1979

This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to aspects of towns and town life. This includes Stella Margetson's article on Victorian pantomime, focussing on London theatres,...

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Archive Print Item

Educational review

Butler, Nicholas Murray (1862-1947); Graves, Frank Pierrepont (1869-1943); Nelson, Charles Alexander (1839-1933)

v.6, no.2 whole no. 27; v.6, no.5 whole no. 30 Bound [no.6-7] with: Longman's magazine, February 1894, in volume lettered "VII EDUC" Vols. 19-34 include "Bibliography of education" for 1899-1906, ...

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Archive Print part

Education : its meaning : a socialist point of view

Stacy, Enid

[1895?]

Cover title. Portait of author on cover.

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Archive Print part

Education when labour rules again

Trevelyan, Sir Charles Philips (1870-1958)

[1927?]

"A speech delivered at the Co-operative hall, Woolwich, on November 20th, 1926."

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Archive Item

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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Sound Recordings, [Cambridgeshire]

Lyons, Margaret

Dec 1978

[Collector announcement]; collector's grandmother [ recorded in Cambridgeshire]; offers childhood recollections of Christmas in the 1910s/1920s - presents, food and drink, supper, singsongs, games (ch...

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Sound Recording, Durham

Pickering, Michael J

5 April 1974

Professor Thomas Thacker, recorded at home in Durham; gives his recollections of Janet Bluntin the late 1920s/early 1930s; attitudes of villagers to her and vice versa; her family, folk song collectin...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 February 1975

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings [unidentified]; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife'; talks about and sings his version of 'My Grandfather's Clock...

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