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John William Jacob papers
Jacob, John William
c.1880-1930
Comprises manuscript notes and press cuttings, mostly on history and education-related subjects
Druids-as-Wished-For
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1976
Offprint/extract from 'To Illustrate the Monuments: Essays in Archaeology Presented to Stuart Piggott on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday', edited by J. V. S. Megaw (London: Thames Hudson, 1976). San...
A survey of history:, or, A nursery for gentry : Contrived and comprized in an intermixt discourse upon historicall and poeticall relations. A subject of it selfe well meriting the approbation of the judicious, who best know how to confirme their knowledge, by this briefe survey, or generall table of mixed discourses... Distinguished into several heads for the direction of the reader ... The like where of for variety of discourse, mixed with profit, and modest delight ... hath not heretofore bin published
Brathwait, Richard (1588?-1673); Brathwait, Richard (1588?-1673)
1638
Title within border. A revised and much extended edition of the author's "Schollers medley", 1614. With additional title page, engraved by William Marshall, with imprint: London printed by N. and ...
Sound Recording
Open University
[1980]
Stanley Ellis discusses some of the main changes in the English language during the last one thousand years, illustrated with readings from passages written by King Alfred, Geoffrey Chaucer and Willia...
Lore and Legend of the Western Fen Borderland
Toffler, Lenora Clare
1967
A study of the folklore of eleven informants living in villages to the north of Peterborough ( Crowland, Helpston, Whittlesey, Glinton and Maxey). The study comprises five chapters, with the first pre...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1975
[Collector announcement]; Alice Baker, recorded at Pymore on the 17 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A673r]; talks about March dust storms; floods of 1912 and 1950s; the condition of local (dro...
Beastings Research
Brunk, Wille
[1967]
Items relating to Wille Brunk's research into beastings, i.e. the first milk drawn from a cow after calving (or bovine colostrum), and its uses. Brunk conducted much of this research through the use o...
Tales from the Pump Room : nine hundred years of Bath : the place, its people and its gossip
Hinde, Thomas (1926-2014); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1988
pt. 1 : Tales of the Past : Prince Bladud; Mediaeval Bath [medieval] ; Doctors of earlier times ; Early royal visitors ; The battle of Lansdowne Hil ; Pepys and his family visit 'the Bath' ; Queen Ann...
Books of notes taken by Maurice Warwick Beresford from lectures in history whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge, 1938-1941
Beresford, Maurice (1920-2005)
1938-1941
(1) Bernard Lord Manning annd Zachary Nugent Brooke on early medieval European history: session 1938-1939. ii, 97 ff. (2) Michael Mo?ssey Postan on medieval English economic history: session 1938-39. ...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Cooke, Jane A
[1979-1980]
First part of this tape comprises a compilation of extracts from the collector's fieldwork recordings in Birdsedge (principally, clapping and skipping rhymes). [Tape labelled demonstration.] [Tr. 1] ...
Folk Dance: General
[1971-1979]
This file contains a photocopy of the English Folk Dance and Song Society's leaflet number 15, 'Folk Dance Articles in the Journal of the English Folk Dance Society, Journal of the English Folk Dance ...