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Archives3
Books and printed items2

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture3
Brotherton Collection2

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mines and mineral resources5
community life3
culture3
english language - dialects3
occupations3
buildings2
energy industries2
holidays2
manners and customs2
persons2

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Europe1
Soviet Union1

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Carter, Sid1
Driver, Mr Jim1
Houck, Charles L1
Jenkin, A K Hamilton (1900-)1
Paul, William (1884-)1
Siporin, Rae Lee1
Society For Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda1
Society For Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda. Cornwall Branch1

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Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Staffordshire

Siporin, Rae Lee

1965

[Collector announcement]; Jim Driver, recorded in Charlesworth in May 1965; talks about his working life, including ropemaking; starting work at the age of 22/23; cotton rope and its use; his family; ...

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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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The nationalisation of West-country minerals

Jenkin, A K Hamilton (1900-); Society for Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda. Cornwall Branch

[1932]

Issued by the N.F.R.B. for the Cornwall Branch of the S.S.I.P. Dated June, 1932 (p.17).

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Houck, Charles L

[Mid 1960s-1970s]

Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of...

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