Trade - General
Description
This file contains items relating to aspects of trading, including a typed paper by Ted Spiegel on Handslag, or striking a bargain, by farmers ([2] leaves); a typed extract listing bad luck beliefs in women's dress shops, collected from a member of the Old Leodiensian XIII Club (23 February 1967); typed information on wife-selling related to Tony Green (1964-1965); typed correspondence between Ann Sutton and Stewart Sanderson on beliefs collected from a London dress shop (28 January 1970); Ian Keil's paper on medieval measures, extracted from the 'Amateur Historian' (Summer 1964), pp. 115-117; Kenneth A. Jacob's article on trade tokens and local history, extracted from the 'Amateur Historian' (Summer 1964), pp. 55-61 and plate; Celia Davies's article on the hay market in Whitechapel High Street, extracted from 'Country Life' (13 November 1969), pp. 1256 and 1258; a photocopy of an ms. bibliography on fairs, compiled by IDFLS archivist Margaret Jackson ([2] leaves; ca. 1976); and mounted newspaper and magazine cuttings from 'The Guardian', the 'Farmers Weekly', 'Country Life', the 'Airedale and Wharfedale Observer', the 'Yorkshire Evening Post', 'John Peel Jottings' and the 'Bradford Telegraph and Argus', on luck payments, hoisting mechanisms for lifting wagons, baker's notices at Great Wishford (Dorset), a spring balance, the Town Beam at Poole Harbour (Dorset), the display of goods by poulterers at Christmas, Anderson Busfield's account of his family's shop in Guiseley (West Yorkshire), tatters or rag-and-bone men in and around Leeds, and horse fairs at Appleby and Brough Hill (Cumbria) and Wibsey (West Yorkshire). File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.
Metadata
| Identifier | ftjc7wcq |
| IRN | 410638 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/4/2/1 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/ftjc7wcq |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Trade |
| Date | 1964-1976 |
| Size and Medium | 1 file of typed and printed papers, magazine extracts and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings. |