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Total number of records: 17

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SubjectCount
buildings17
culture13
occupations12
community life10
literature and folklore9
communication8
dwellings7
english language - dialects7
folklore7
nature7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Brunskill, Ronald W1
Bryon, Fiona1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Francis, W Nelson (1910-2002)1
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)1
Reader, Karen1
Rosen, Leslie1
Ross, Reginald1
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)1

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Trams, Railways and Boats

1967-1973

This file contains items on forms of travel, including James Edward Holroyd's article on tramcars, extracted from 'Country Life' (7 December 1967), p. 1490; an ms. postcard from Jeremy Godwin to Stewa...

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SED Word Map: Cowhouse
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SED Word Map: Cowhouse

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Early-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question I.1.8, Cowhouse, mapping the distribution of responses Cowbyre, Cow-Hovel, Cow-Pen, Cow-Stable, Beast-House, -Byre, Mistall and Shippo...

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Museums

1966-1973

This file contains items relating to museums and related institutions, including Bryce Nelson's article on S. Dillon Ripley's plans for recreating a slum at the Smithsonian Institution, extracted from...

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Recording English Vernacular Architecture

Brunskill, Ronald W

[ca. 1970]

This file contains multiple copies of recording sheets developed by R.W. Brunksill for recording the details of various types of English vernacular architecture, and found in his 'Illustrated Handbook...

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Vernacular Architecture in the Parish of Richards Castle

Reader, Karen

1982

A dissertation which records a number of buildings that are to be found within the bounds of the parish of Richards Castle, which straddles the Herefordshire/ Shropshire border. The village of the sam...

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Stonework

1969-1979

This file contains items relating to stone industries and related crafts, including a photocopy of the Appendix to Horace Harman's 'Buckinghamshire Dialect' (reprinted Wakefield: S. R. Publishers, 197...

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Tartan: The Origin and Development of the Cloth and its Characteristic Form, the Kilt

Wordley, Vivienne E

1977

A study looking at the relationship between tartan and Scotland, and tartan and the rest of the world; between the practical, functional side of tartan, and the symbolic role it has played in the past...

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Long Narrative Verse

[1968-1970]

This file contains four offprinted papers by Michael Cherniss on epic poems, being 'The Progress of the Hoard in Beowulf', offprinted from the 'Philological Quarterly', volume XLVII, number 4 (October...

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Courtship and Marriage; Death and Funerals

1962-1980

This file contains items on marriage customs, death and funeral customs and beliefs, and ghosts. This includes ms. and typed correspondence between R. W. Crosland and Tony Green on the custom of biddi...

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Farm Buildings

1954-1979

This file contains items on farmhouses and other buildings traditionally found on working farms. The larger part of the file includes items from the period 1965-1979; cuttings and articles extracted f...

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Conventional Expressions

1964-1979

This file contains a photocopy of Irene Teoh Brosnahan's paper, 'The Haptics of the English Handshake', from 'IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching', volume XVII, numb...

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Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

14 January 1981

Leslie Rosen talks about the 1970 textile strike in Leeds, and his involvement; describes background to the strike (high rate of work for low pay, disparity in male/female pay rises) and knock-on effe...

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