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Total number of records: 8

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Archives6
Books and printed items2

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture6
Brotherton Collection2

Top 10: Subject

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war8
community life6
culture5
occupations5
education4
agriculture3
animals3
english language - dialects3
folk music3
manners and customs3

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Germany1
Great Britain1

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'Dusty'1
Baldwin, John R1
Bennett, Basil1
Cook, E. T.1
Cook, Mrs. E. T.1
Dawes, George1
Dunn, Ginette1
Garvey, Billy1
Higgs, D.1
Higgs, Judith1

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Higgs, Judith

March 1973

[Announcement, made by collector's mother, a nurse visiting the informant]; Richard Mills and his wife recorded in Walsall Wood; Mr. Mills sings 'The Old Folks Jim', 'A Lady in Hospital' and 'I'm Foll...

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Archive Print part

Anglo-German trade and the un-measured costs of war

Hunter, Dorothy M

[1913?]

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Archive Print part

The war traders : An exposure

Perris, G H (1866-1920)

[1913]

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Reed [location not given] talks about his family; farming for 54 years; ploughing with horses; his role as Church Warden and the role of the Church Council; reference to Lord Sidmouth and Lady Sid...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

2 October 1974

Basil Bennett, recorded at home in Snape; talks about learning songs whilst in the Army and the Navy - 'I'm in Love with Two Sweethearts' and 'Farewell My Own True Love'; his and other people's repert...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

[Mid-1960s]

Male, recorded in Filey in 1962 [date when this copy tape made not known]; talks about an incident at sea, and trying to launch a boat; going to sea at thirteen; wages; boat lamps, hand pump on board;...

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Sound Recordings, Shropshire

Hubbard, Wendy E

October-November 1958

[Collector announcement]; William Moore, [?recorded in Albrighton (Shropshire)], talks about his father's haulage business; harvesting; the weather; his father; a motorbike; an anecdote about retrievi...

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Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1969

George Dawes [Dusty Dawes], recorded at home in Meysey Hampton; discusses the chorus to the songs 'Treat My Daughter Kindly' and 'Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups Do Grow'; talks about [?step/?...

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