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Total number of records: 306

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Archives275
Books and printed items31

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture274
Leeds Russian Archive15
Brotherton Collection9
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Herbert Read Collection1

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transportation306
community life271
occupations212
nature141
vehicles132
agriculture128
culture109
animals100
buildings72
food59

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Russia2
Soviet Union2
Belgium1
France1
France, Northern1
Great Britain1
United States1

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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)67
Witton, Lesley A19
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)18
Taylor, Harry17
Outhwaite, T. G.14
Calvert, Kit12
T. C.12
Mcnay, Ian10
Hartley, Dorothy8
Caunce, Stephen7

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Tvvo proclamations by the King. His Maiesties proclamation for the more free passage of all his loving subjects and the free carriage and conveyance of their horses, provisions, or other goods from any one place or part to another within his kingdom of England and the dominions thereof

Charles king of England (1600-1649); Great Britain. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)

1642

Originally published: York : 1642. First proclamation dated "the eighteenth day of June", (p.2); second proclamation dated "the twentieth day of June", (p.6).

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Air land and sea : a cavalcade of transport

Holton, Walter

[1948?]

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The business of war

Marcosson, Isaac Frederick (1876-1961)

1918

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Belgium and the north east of France [cartographic material]

Great Britain. War Office

1910

Shows canals, railways, roads and some military features.

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IDFLS Lists of Theses etc. - Correspondence

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-); Drury, Susan

1971-1987

The letters in this file comprise enquiries regarding the purchase of Stewart Sanderson's 'Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations in Folk Life Studies in the University of Leeds 1961-1970', and request...

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Application for Copies of Material: IDFLS

1977-1992

Application forms and accompanying correspondence; two lists (ms., typescript photocopies) of dialect theses held in the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies library. The bulk of these items wer...

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Exhibition Photographs and Related Papers

[1960s-1970s]

The photographs in this file have been mounted in groups according to particular subjects. Thus, there are two sheets of eight prints showing the construction and use of a hay creel (including duplica...

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Talismans, Magical Techniques, Charms, Etc.

1966-1979

The file contains an ms. letter from Evelyn Briggs on a superstition associated with seeing pigs on the way to the [horse] races (16 October 1972); Mary Corringham's article on talismans and their use...

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Radio Ballads Scripts

MacColl, Ewan (1915-1989); Parker, Charles (1919-1980)

1958-1960

This file contains four typed transcripts of production scripts for programmes in the BBC's Radio Ballads series, by Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker. These are a copy of the production script for 'The...

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