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Total number of records: 11

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture6
Cookery Collection4
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

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beverages11
food8
community life6
occupations6
agriculture5
culture5
education5
play5
war5
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Brook, Ann1
Christian, Glynn1
Creasy, George1
Croze, Austin De1
Dewsbury, Sidney1
Dufour, Philippe Sylvestre (1622-1687)1
Dunn, Ginette1
Gimbert, Claude1
Gooding, Adolphus1
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Edible France

Christian, Glynn

1986

"A traveller's guide"--Front cover.

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Eating and drinking in France today

Vandyke Price, Pamela (1923-2014)

1972

Bibliography: p308-314. - Includes index.

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Sound Recording, Hampshire

Wakelin, Martyn F

1964

Charles Sheppard, recorded in Bishop's Sutton; talks about working with pigs; rook starving [scaring] after the corn sown; scarecrows; service in the Rifle Brigade during World War One, in France; ret...

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Tractatus novi de potu caphé; de chinesium thé; et de chocolata

Dufour, Philippe Sylvestre (1622-1687); Spon, Jacob (1647-1685); Marradon, Bartolomeo

1685

First published in French under title: "De l'usage du caphé, du thé, et du chocolate", Lyon 1671. "La première partie de cet ouvrage est traduite du traité de Naironi sur le café; la seconde est ...

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Sound Recording, Somerset

Ihalainen, Ossi

July 1972

Jack Spencer, recorded at home in Westhay on 15 July 1972; describes haymaking, including raking, work breaks, harnessing horses, loading waggons, drink, rick making, dinner time, food, tea, evening w...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Pasanen, Leena

July-August 1971

[Collector announcement]; George Creasy, recorded at home in Framsdenon the 30 July 1971; recites the monologues 'Bill and Bob' and 'Harvest Carting in Suffolk'; talks about his working life on local ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

2 July 1975

Ben Ling, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about singing when younger, and learning to sing; singing at school, and during his time in the Army (in France, field artillery); farm work with his uncl...

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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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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Sidney Dewsbury, recorded in Pymore on 19 July 1975; talks about his working life; local floods in 1937 and 1940; work for river authority; strengthening/building river banks...

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Bill for the Ambassadeur

c. 1960

Undated handwritten bill for food and drink at the Ambassadeur.

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