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Total number of records: 11

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture7
Brotherton Collection3
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection3
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
home11
agriculture7
animals7
community life7
nature7
occupations7
food6
culture5
manners and customs5
war5

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Nice, France3
Croagnes, France1
London, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Pasanen, Leena3
Applett, Stanley1
Chilvers, Maggie1
Creasy, George1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Farrow, Mrs1
Glapson, W.1
Goddard, Mr1
Manning, Mrs1
Manning, William1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 18003
From 19008

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 18993
Up to 19998

Archive Sub-series

Villa Quaglia

c. 1855

Plans and photographs of Villa Quaglia in Nice, now in France and then part of Italy. Vincent Novello retired there in 1849 and was joined by his daughter and son-in-law Mary and Charles Cowden Clarke...

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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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1962

1962

Letters from the Royal Society of British Artists to Maurice de Sausmarez reminding him to pay his subscription, invoice for domestic repairs to his second home in Croagnes, France, and insurance docu...

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Sound Recording, East Sussex

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1964]

Mr. W. Glapson, recorded in Horam; talks about his smallholding and retirement from farming; farm work - mowing corn with a scythe, binding and stooking, stacking; modern farming; first jobs, aged fou...

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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 Recordings, Suffolk

Pasanen, Leena

August 1971

[Collector announcement]; Stanley Applett, a retired butcher, recorded in his home in Framsdenon the 3 August 1971; talks about his working life as a butcher; his apprenticeship and wages; joining the...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Pasanen, Leena

July 1971

[Collector announcement]; Maggie Chilvers, recorded in Helmingham on the 26 July 1971; describes a typical working week for her mother, including brushing Sunday clothes; washing (Tuesdays); ironing (...

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Plan of Villa Quaglia?

c. 1849

Hand-drawn plan of a house and garden, likely Villa Quaglia in Nice, noting the locations of the bedrooms of Mary Sabilla Novello and her daughters (Mary) Sabilla Novello and Emma Aloysia Novello. Inc...

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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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Farming Past and Present: A Study Based in the Village of Terrington St. John and the Surrounding Areas of the Fens of North West Norfolk

Pearson, Margaret Frances

1977

A study of the farming community of Terrington St. John in Norfolk, based largely on fieldwork interviews with local people. The study comprises nine chapters. The first presents a profile of the vill...

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Trade - General

1964-1976

This file contains items relating to aspects of trading, including a typed paper by Ted Spiegel on Handslag, or striking a bargain, by farmers ([2] leaves); a typed extract listing bad luck beliefs in...

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