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Total number of records: 16

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Record type	Count
Archives	11
Books and printed items	5

Count of Collection group

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	11
Cookery Collection	5

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
brewing	16
food	11
occupations	10
beverages	8
community life	8
nature	8
agriculture	7
animals	7
culture	7
cooking	6

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Wright, John T	4
Kylstra, Henk E	3
Ernest	2
Morgan, Leonard	2
Orchard, Bill	2
Packer, Ernie	2
Smith, George	2
Tyler, William (1893-1893)	2
William	2
Ambler, Pamela J	1

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From 1700	5
From 1900	11

Count of Latest date

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Up to 1799	5
Up to 1999	11

Archive Print Item

The lady's companion : containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery; and those the best and most fashionable; being four times the quantity of any book of this sort... To which is added, bills of fare for every month in the year. Also, directions for brewing beers, ales, &c., making all sorts of English wines, cyder, mum, metheglin, vinegar, verjuice, catchup, &c. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the bite of a mad dog; the recipe, sent from Ireland, for the gout; Sir Hans Sloane's receipt for sore eyes; and the receipt for making tar water (v.1)

1751

Illustrations on folded leaves of plates. Anon.

Archive Print Item

The lady's companion : containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery; and those the best and most fashionable; being four times the quantity of any book of this sort... To which is added, bills of fare for every month in the year. Also, directions for brewing beers, ales, &c., making all sorts of English wines, cyder, mum, metheglin, vinegar, verjuice, catchup, &c. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the bite of a mad dog; the recipe, sent from Ireland, for the gout; Sir Hans Sloane's receipt for sore eyes; and the receipt for making tar water (v.2)

1751

Illustrations on folded leaves of plates. Anon.

Archive Print Item

The lady's companion : containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery; and those the best and most fashionable; being four times the quantity of any book of this sort... To which is added, bills of fare for every month in the year. Also, directions for brewing beers, ales, &c., making all sorts of English wines, cyder, mum, metheglin, vinegar, verjuice, catchup, &c. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the bite of a mad dog; the recipe, sent from Ireland, for the gout; Sir Hans Sloane's receipt for sore eyes; and the receipt for making tar water (v.2)

1751

Illustrations on folded leaves of plates. Anon.

Archive Print Item

The lady's companion : containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery; and those the best and most fashionable; being four times the quantity of any book of this sort... To which is added, bills of fare for every month in the year. Also, directions for brewing beers, ales, &c., making all sorts of English wines, cyder, mum, metheglin, vinegar, verjuice, catchup, &c. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the bite of a mad dog; the recipe, sent from Ireland, for the gout; Sir Hans Sloane's receipt for sore eyes; and the receipt for making tar water (v.1)

1751

Illustrations on folded leaves of plates. Anon.

Archive Print Item

The lady's companion : containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery; and those the best and most fashionable; being four times the quantity of any book of this sort... To which is added, bills of fare for every month in the year. Also, directions for brewing beers, ales, &c., making all sorts of English wines, cyder, mum, metheglin, vinegar, verjuice, catchup, &c. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the bite of a mad dog; the recipe, sent from Ireland, for the gout; Sir Hans Sloane's receipt for sore eyes; and the receipt for making tar water (v.2)

1751

Illustrations on folded leaves of plates. Anon.

Archive File

The Living Dialect of Queensbury, Near Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding

Ambler, Pamela J

1954

A study of the dialect spoken in Queensbury in West Yorkshire. An introduction to the town is followed by a chapter which gives a descriptive account of the dialect in 1954 (with sections on vowels ...

Archive File

A Survey of Annual Bonfires in England 1900-1910

Molloy-Morley, Carolyn

1967

A report outlining the findings of a survey undertaken collaboratively between the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies at Leeds, and the Department of English at University College, London . Th...

Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Wright, John T

24 November 1958

[Collector announcement]; William Rickards, recorded in Egloshayle; talks about farmwork on leaving school; wages; quarry work after World War One; working with his father in his flour mill, and then ...

Archive Item

Sound Recordings, East Sussex, Somerset, [Devon] and Kent

[1950s]

Compilation of extracts copied from Survey of English Dialects field recordings made in the south of England. The first extract is from an interview with Harry Burghess [Burgess], made by Michael B...

Archive Item

Sound Recordings, [Devon]

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Collins [location not given] talks about flour milling; flour mill and working conditions; milling machinery and processes; cider; wages and working conditions; wages on leaving school; Christmas;...

Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Hampshire

Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E

1957-1961

[Announcement by Henk Kylstra]; Ernest Packer, recorded in Ashton Keynes in July 1957, by John Wright; talks about work with horses and waggon, on leaving school aged eleven; agricultural wages; ploug...

Archive Item

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...