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Total number of records: 14

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Books and printed items2

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture12
Cookery Collection1

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food14
occupations12
agriculture11
community life11
culture9
nature9
animals8
buildings7
english language - dialects6
food crops6

Top 10: People and organisations

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Panheinen, Ossi3
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)2
Brown, Peter2
Day, Ivan2
Fairfax House (York, England)2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2
Cook, Mr1
Cooper, Mary1
Cooper, William1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1

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...

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Harvest Supper Setting
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Harvest Supper Setting

[1960s]

Display showing a room decorated for a Wolds harvest supper, at an unidentified Yorkshire museum. The scene shows a long table and benches set for at least twelve people, with candles, jugs, bread, pi...

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Archive Print Item

Pleasures of the table : ritual and display in the European dining room, 1600-1900 : an exhibition at Fairfax House, York, 1st September to 20th November 1997

Brown, Peter; Day, Ivan; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Fairfax House (York, England)

[1997]

Published to accompany the exhibition.

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Archive Print Item

Pleasures of the table : ritual and display in the European dining room, 1600-1900 : an exhibition at Fairfax House, York, 1st September to 20th November 1997

Brown, Peter; Day, Ivan; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Fairfax House (York, England)

[1997]

Published to accompany the exhibition.

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Survey of English Dialects Contact Prints
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Survey of English Dialects Contact Prints

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1967

Strip of six contact prints, including two photographs of thatched corn stacks in a field near Foulden (including LAVC/PHO/P1037); and four photographs of Harold Orton in the Survey of English Dialect...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Outhwaite, Paul N

October 1963

Benjamin Harrison, recorded in Farnley; talks about his working life, including work in a coal yard, coal deliveries, working with horses; harvest time; farm labourers' food; work during the summer ti...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Layzell of Branscombe, recorded whilst he works in his blacksmith's smithy [machinery noise throughout]; relates the history of the building; working as a smith since 1911; father a smith in the s...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

[Mid-1960s]

Two males in conversation, recorded in Filey in April 1962. [Date when this copy tape made not known.] Reference to local people; fish and chip shops; singing in local pubs; fishing related - nets/lin...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)

26 July 1972

Female, recorded in Leeds; talks about her career as Manageress of the Refectory at the University of Leeds (1935-1941). Describes the University in 1935; campus buildings; building scheme (demolition...

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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 Recordings, Wiltshire

Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1960

Mr. Hitchcock, recorded in Netheravon; talks about his parents; Ernest Kent; the pronunciation of the words gate and post [Orton questions]; ploughing; the pronunciation of the word horses; Orton ques...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

23 November 1971

Mary Judge, recorded in Leeds; talks about her upbringing in the Lancashire village of Overton (1900-1914); community life; scrambling for hot pennies at weddings; wedding parties and the food eaten; ...

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