Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 56 records

Total number of records: 56

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives53
Books and printed items2
Objects1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture54
Cookery Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
food56
community life48
occupations46
nature41
agriculture38
culture36
food crops32
animals31
english language - dialects25
manners and customs23

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)8
Wright, John T6
Barry, Michael V (1935-)4
Kylstra, Henk E3
Tammivaara, Irmeli3
William3
Burghess, Mr Harry2
Bushell, Mr William2
Dudman, Charles Henry2
Dunn, Ginette2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 15002
From 190054

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 15992
Up to 199954

Archive Print Item

Trattato della natura de'cibi et del bere

Pisanelli, Baldassare (1559-1583)

1583

Leaves printed on one side only, with opposite pages numbered in duplicate.

More details


Archive Object Item

Decorated Egg

[1960s]

A hard-boiled, decorated egg, coloured with a food-based(?) red/pink dye. The shell is patterned with stencils made from small fern leaves and wild flowers.

More details


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 ...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Essex and West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Martin Baynes, recorded in Henham (Essex); talks about his working life; jobs on leaving school, scaring birds, riding the chain horse at harvest time; working with horses from the age of 14/15; worki...

More details


Archive File

The Dwelling House: Rooms, Fittings, Utilities, Etc.

1969-1979

This file contains items on various aspects of the dwelling house, with a focus on fittings and equipment and domestic utilities. This includes an article by Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby on farm kit...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

[1970s]

Mr. J. Froggatts, recorded in Chapelthorpe; talks about Pontefract Horse Fair; anecdotes relating to his family; biographical details; half time at school aged twelve, working part-time in the pit; le...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, North Lincolnshire

Haldenby, Cynthia

August 1958

George Gilliat, recorded in Winterton; talks about his working life; childhood recollections of making ?cowbands and tending calves; farm pay, attitudes to work; work with horses; horse breaking; pare...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, Essex

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[June 1958]

Stacey George Dyer, recorded in Great Chesterford; talks about his grandfather and his work as a farm labourer; names for men mowing, depending on their position in the team; harvesting machinery; bin...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

22 February 1980

Ceridwen Thomas offers recollections of her childhood in early twentieth century Treorchy - World War One, housework, gardening; also, childbirth; parental discipline; miners' strikes; Rhondda cake; S...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

29 March 1963

Thomas Stephens, recorded at home in Altarnun; answers a selection of questions, put by Martyn Wakelin, from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey questionnaire; talks with Stanley Ellis about his first job;...

More details


Archive Item

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...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F; Wright, John T

1958-1963

[Collector announcement]; Francis Lobb, recorded by Stanley Ellis in St Ewe on the 29 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; di...

More details