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Novello Cowden Clarke
1739-1966
The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...
Cures and Causes
1962-1978
This subseries contains items relating to the causes and curing of ailments and diseases, and includes items on healers and traditional cures, and a photocopy of Jean Gessler's 'Stromata Mediae et Inf...
Accounts
1843-1898
Various financial records for members of the Novello family and their wider relatives, associated with both their domestic and professional lives. Includes documents related to loans, investments and ...
Student Folklore Dossiers
1971-1982
Student folklore dossiers, variously subtitled Scheme B - Folk Life 1: First Term Exercise, and Folk Life Exercise: First Term. Each compilation includes the student's biographical details, and items ...
Common Diseases and Ailments
1960-1979
This subseries contains items relating to the treatment and cure of common diseases and ailments. This includes a file of information on traditional cures, and items relating to the treatment of warts...
Symbolic and Magical Uses of Plants in Connection with Birth in Modern Greece
Papamichael, Anna J
1974
This Ph.D. thesis comprises an Introduction, and chapters on the symbolic and magic uses of plants in the procreation of children in Greece, the begetting of male offspring, the causing of sterility, ...
Sheep Farming in Eskdale, Cumberland
Harrison, Keith
1966
A thesis which concentrates on aspects of sheep farming in Eskdale, with particular reference to one farming family in the area. Fieldwork was carried out between 1965 and 1966.
The Smoking Pipe
Berry, Simon J C
1967
A thesis in four sections, presenting a history of the pipe, descriptions of the manufacture and styles of clay, brier, wooden, non-wood and Meerschaum pipes, pipe practice (public and private), the p...
Farming Traditions in South Shropshire
Gwilliam, K Sheila
1967
A thesis based on the experiences of the collector's family, farming an area near Clun in Shropshire.
Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock) to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
1880-1882
Correspondence between the novelist and poet Dinah Maria Craik (née Mulock) and Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, concerned with Craik's travels in Italy and associated periods of ill health.
Dalby, John Watson to Cowden Clarke, Charles
1870-1872
Two handwritten letters from the poet and editor John Watson Dalby to Charles Cowden Clarke, dated 27 August 1870 and 19 February 1872. The former describes the ill health of Ralph (likely the husband...
Five Aspects of Woman in North-West Galician Rural Society
Davenport, H
1975
M.A. thesis (School of Special Studies in Spanish) on certain roles of the woman within rural society in the north-west region of Galicia. Chapters cover the physical geographical and social condition...