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    The Museum of English Rural Life, also known as The MERL, is a museum, library and archive dedicated to recording the changing face of farming and the...
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    by the back door, their pile hiding dirt well. The Museum of English Rural Life has a collection of rug-making tools and thrift rugs. These are both handmade...
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    use of brasses as emblems was particularly prevalent in Somerset and the surrounding counties. The Museum of English Rural Life has a collection of over...
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  • Museum of English Rural Life. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 11 November 2019. "David Scrivener Collection". David Scrivener Collection. The Museum of English...
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    Bucklebury (category Use British English from September 2013)
    the Museum of English Rural Life collection. In the Second World War much of Bucklebury Common was cleared for the stationing of troops. Some of the concrete...
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    Pitt Rivers Museum. Retrieved 6 December 2019. "Coker, Alec (corn dollies)". Coker, Alec (corn dollies). Museum of English Rural Life. Retrieved 6 December...
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  • The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for...
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    The Somerset Rural Life Museum is situated in Glastonbury, Somerset, UK. It is a museum of the social and agricultural history of Somerset, housed in buildings...
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    Fire insurance mark (category History of firefighting)
    buildings could rapidly spread to insured buildings. The Museum of English Rural Life has a collection of 100 fire insurance marks from around England. An urban...
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    exhibits in museums or private collections. A fine one is in the University of Reading's Museum of English Rural Life. The characteristic design of the ledge...
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    his death in the early 1960s. A collection of his leather working tools is in the Museum of English Rural Life. Yattendon has a shop, post office, garage...
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    important role to play as custodians of the English countryside and wildlife. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is the government department...
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    Building | Architects of Greater Manchester". "The History of St. Andrew's Hall". Online Exhibitions. The Museum of English Rural Life. Retrieved 11 January...
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    Ward Lock, 1973. ISBN 0-7063-1811-0 "Church Tokens", New York Times, 11 April 1993 New York City Subway Tokens Museum of English Rural Life Trade Tokens...
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    Smock-frock (category English clothing)
    Smock-frocks. Smocks at the Museum of English Rural Life Origins of the smock at Historical Boys' Clothing Men's Frocks of Other Days 18th century farmers'...
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  • Michael O'Connell (artist) (category English emigrants to Australia)
    the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading, and the collection of National Museums Scotland, and in Australia...
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    Huntley and Palmers. The Museum of English Rural Life, in East Reading, is a museum dedicated to recording the changing face of farming and the countryside...
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    Women's Land Army (category Use British English from August 2011)
    Suffolk BBC Audio Slideshow about one woman's Land Army experiences Yorkshire Museum of Farming Women's Land Army collections Museum of English Rural Life...
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  • Suttons Seeds (category Horticultural companies of the United Kingdom)
    From This 107-year Old Company SUTTON’S SEEDS SIGN, Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Reading Matthew Appleby (2 December 2014). "Devon-based...
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    Cruikshank, published in 1871, and available from Project Gutenberg Mair and Dicken collections of historical horseshoes in the Museum of English Rural Life...
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    Enclosure Acts of rural England contributed to the plight of rural farmworkers. Between 1770 and 1830, about 6 million acres (24,000 km2) of common land...
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    Since 2008 its standards have excluded nanomaterials. Rolf Gardiner – English rural revivalist Claire Loewenfeld – British garden writer (1899-1974)Pages...
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  • The Churchill Machine Tool Company (category Engineering companies of the United Kingdom)
    sales catalogues, April 1876". Museum of English Rural Life. Retrieved 6 January 2011. "Museum of English Rural Life: Folder of Charles Churchill & Co. sales...
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  • ADAS (company) (category Use British English from March 2018)
    Retrieved 18 January 2018. "ADAS (Drainage tile collection) - The Museum of English Rural Life". The MERL. 15 March 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2019. "RSK...
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    The Rural Life Living Museum is in Tilford, Surrey near Farnham in southern England. Formerly known as the Old Kiln Agricultural Museum and the Rural Life...
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    (1944) Henry Devonshire, Birmingham National Horse Brass Society, UK National Horse Brass Society Museum of English Rural Life Horse Brass collection...
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    the rural Western and Northern Isles and in the coastal fringes of the western and northern Scottish mainland. Crofting communities were a product of the...
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    History of English Food. Random House. ISBN 978-1-905-21185-2. Green, Kate & Bryan, Melanie (2020) "Around Britain in 50 Foods"; in: Country Life; 12 February...
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    English cuisine encompasses the cooking styles, traditions and recipes associated with England. It has distinctive attributes of its own, but is also very...
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    2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak (category History of agriculture in the United Kingdom)
    merged with elements of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions to form the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)...
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