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Total number of records: 9

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture7
Brotherton Collection1
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1

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home9
community life6
culture6
manners and customs6
occupations6
entertainment events5
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holidays4
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buildings3

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Nice, France1

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Anderson, Joe1
Bonham-Carter, Victor1
Chapman, James1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Garton, J. A.1
Gledhill, James1
Goulburn, David1
Harris, Susan1
Jacobson, Joanne1
Jacques, Oswald1

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Archive File

1963

1963

Receipts for art books, letters from the New English Art Club to Maurice de Sausmarez communicating the sale of a painting and the arrears of his subscriptions, an invoice from Alfred Stiles & Sons, L...

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Photographs of Villa Quaglia

c. 1855

Four mounted photographs of the exterior of Villa Quaglia in Nice, including the garden and wider landscape. Members of the Novello Cowden Clarke family lived there from 1849 to 1861. Each photograph ...

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The Dialect of Golcar

Jacobson, Joanne

1974

M.A. project on one dialect speaker from Golcar, West Yorkshire . Analysis is made of material contained within a 34-minute tape recorded interview with Mr. Gledhill, made by Stanley Ellis in 1963. ...

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Sound Recordings, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1963

Bill Stevenson, recorded in Carleton on the 1 February 1963; talks about his upbringing in Carleton; his father; pig keeping and killing for Christmas; diet; local school; Mischief Night and pranks de...

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Annual Festivals: General

1962-1972

This file contains Mats Rehnberg's pamphlet on holidays and annual festivals in Sweden (Stockholm: Svenska Institutet, 1964), [24] pp.; a photocopy of the guide to the Stone Collection at Birmingham R...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Pattison, Susan

[1975]

Adrian Peters, recorded at home in Marston, talks about his 7-8 year involvement with the Antrobus Soul-Cakers - link with wife's family and parts played [ David Goulburn contributes occasionally]; ag...

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Basket, Straw and Rope-Work

1960-1973

This file includes a photocopy of typed notes made by Rodney Cousins on basket-making, collected from H. Summers, basketmaker, Sutton-on-Trent (November 1969) and from Herbert Lloyd Johnes' 'The Baske...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June-July 1974

[Collector announcement]; George Warby and Olive Warby [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A667r], recorded in Elm on the 27 June 1974; talk about the Charity Dole for agricultural workers from Elm and Frid...

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Sound Recording, Devon

Read, John (1884-1963)

8 July 1958

[John Read announcement]; John Read, recorded at the home of his friend, Victor Bonham-Carter, in East Anstey, giving his recollections of country life and the dialect in south-eastern Somerset. Talks...

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