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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture15
Liddle Collection1
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

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history18
culture15
community life12
manners and customs9
occupations8
folklore6
literature and folklore6
nature6
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education5

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Barwell, Carol A1
Barwell, Kenneth1
Barwell, Mary1
Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)1
Cheichel, Edna1
Gold, Leizer1
Greenwood, Harry1
Holt, Rachel A1
Liddell Hart, Sir Basil Henry (1895-1970)1
Safer, Rabbi1

Archive File

Oral History: Associations, Workshops, Conferences

1969-1977

Leaflet on oral history and the Regional Oral History Office at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; printed review of the Oral History Micropublication Plan at the Butler Library...

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Loughborough Market

Holt, Rachel A

1971

A study of Loughborough Market, comprising ten chapters and nine appendices. The chapters offer general comments on markets, the population of Leicestershire, descriptions of Loughborough Market from ...

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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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Sound Recordings,

Barwell, Carol A

27 December 1978

[Collector announcement: informant, date]; Kenneth Barwell [collector's father] talks about family Christmases in the 1960s and mid 1970s; meaning of Christmas; cards, Christmas trees. [Tr. 8]

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Decorative Arts

1970-1979

This file contains items relating generally to the decorative arts, including carving and the decoration of items. The file includes a photocopy of Carson I. A. Ritchie's article, 'Art of the Northern...

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Elsie Maud Fletcher to Maurice de Sausmarez

3 Sep 1970

Handwritten letter from Elsie Maud Fletcher to Maurice de Sausmarez, noting that they had met when de Sausmarez gave a lecture at Grantley Hall and that Fletcher had given him a copy of her publicatio...

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Miscellaneous Folklore Papers

1964-1979

Pamphlet by Charles Phythian-Adams, 'Local History and Folklore: A New Framework' ([London]: Standing Conference for Local History, 1975), 39 pp.; reprint from the 'Journal of the Folklore Institute',...

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Pamphlet collection compiled by Lord Boyle of Handsworth

Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)

c.1945-1981

1141 pamphlets held in 40 pamphlet boxes on 5 shelves. Sorted and boxed by broad subject. Possibly the bequest of Lord Boyle, ca.1981 Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, P.C., C.H....

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Farming

1964-1970

Includes typed reminiscences ([6] leaves) of Councillor Edmund of Driffield, as told to John Berger and noted by E. Dawson (Agricultural Economics Section, University of Leeds), on life on a Wolds far...

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Historical Events

1969-1975

This file contains Theo Brown's pamphlet, 'Trojans in the West Country' (St. Peter Port: Toucan Press, 1970), 16 pp.; L. V. Grinsell's pamphlet on the folklore of Stanton Drew (St. Peter Port: Toucan ...

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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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Pottery, Brick-Making and Glass

1960-1972

This file contains items on traditional pottery, brick-making and glasswares, including Charles Thomas's paper on people and pottery in Dark Age Cornwall, extracted from 'Old Cornwall'(1960), pp. 452-...

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