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Total number of records: 20
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| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Cato the Elder | 3 |
| Cato, Marcus Porcius | 3 |
| Cato, Marcus Porcius (234 BC-149 BC) | 3 |
| Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus | 3 |
| Gargilius Martialis, Quintus | 3 |
| Gesner, Johann Matthias | 3 |
| Gesner, Johann Matthias (1691-1761) | 3 |
| Palladius Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus | 3 |
| Varro, Marcus Terentius | 3 |
| Vegetius Renatus, Publius | 3 |
North-West Shropshire: Agricultural Custom and Belief
Burton, Julia Sarah
1974
A study of agricultural custom and belief in Shropshire, based on interviews with seven informants (including members of the collector's family), and information in local magazines and a mid-nineteent...
Plant Lore in England: 1600-1800
Drury, Susan
1984
M.Phil. thesis surveying the use of plants in material culture, as food, in calendar and social customs, in medicine, orthodox religion and the supernatural, in popular belief, divination, charms and ...
Folklore Survey (Goathland)
Green, R J
1963
A fieldwork notebook containing items of folklore collected during July 1963 in Goathland, North Yorkshire, from sixteen informants. For each informant, a name and address are given, and the item coll...
Horses, Cattle and Draft Animals
1960-1973
This file contains items on livestock, in particular cattle and horses. The focus is largely on the general care and management of cattle and horses, folklore relating to their care, medicine, dialect...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1975
[Collector announcement]; Christopher Haddock [ Albert Haddock's brother] and Elsie Haddock, recorded at Sutton Gault on the 22 July 1975; talk about wild mushrooms and mushroom picking; mushroom ketc...
Farming Folklore in the Area of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Cherry, Jane
1975
A study of the treatments known by eight farmers from the Mansfield area of Nottinghamshire for ailments afflicting their livestock. Sections deal in turn with remedies relating to an animal's head, n...
Commonplace book belonging to Thomas Eskricke
Eskricke, Thomas
c.1710-c.1748
Contains mainly veterinary preparations, but also notes on farming, as follows: (1) ff.1-15, veterinary preparations, ca.1710-ca.1748; (2) ff.24-19 (inverted), mathematical examples; (3) f.18v, sundry...
Scriptores rei rusticae veteres latini Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius. Quibus nunc accedit Vegetius De mulo-medicina et Gargilii Martialis fragmentum. Cum editionibus prope omnibus et mss. pluribus collati. Adjectae notae virorum clariss. integrae tum editae tum ineditae et lexicon rei rusticae (v.1)
Marcus Porcius Cato; Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus; Palladius Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus; Varro, Marcus Terentius; Gesner, Johann Matthias (1691-1761); Gargilius Martialis, Quintus; Vegetius Renatus, Publius
1735
Title of vol.2 varies.
Sound Recording, Cornwall
Wakelin, Martyn F; Tilling, Philip M (1938-)
July 1963
Harry Welshman, recorded in Duloe; talks about his time in the village; agricultural work and wages; leaving school aged fourteen; father's work as a gamekeeper; Army service during World War One; tak...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Haltwhistle, Northumberland
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
24 Feb 1953
[Side 1] Ned tells series of anecdotes about horses, recalls horse stumbling while carting stones from Lees Hall quarry, describes journey to Hindleysteel over old fell road, winning several races wit...
The gentlemans recreation : In two parts. The first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences. To wit, an abridgment thereof, which (in a clear method) treats the doctrine, and general parts of each art,... The second part, treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture. With a short treatise of cock-fighting; for the breeding, dyetting, ordering, matching, and fighting them. All which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements made by those well experienced in the said recreations. And for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish; not hitherto published by any. The whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures, engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects
Blome, Richard (1705)
1686
With an additional title page (plate) engraved: The gentlemans recreation by R. Blome. Title page in red and black. Printed in double columns. Brome signs the dedication. Approbation of Charle...
Sound Recording
British Broadcasting Corporation
[1960s/1970s]
George Ewart Evans presents a radio programme entitled 'Horsepower and Magic' [BBC Home Service 1964-09-17 20:30], which includes horsemen from East Anglia and Scotland talking about the folklore and ...