English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales)

Description

The majority of recordings are edited copies of original field tape recordings of English dialect speakers, made as part of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) between 1951 and 1962 by its principal fieldworker, Stanley Ellis. The subseries also contains further (edited) copies of these tape recordings, and additional field recordings made in new locations by Stanley Ellis on behalf of under- and postgraduate language students studying at the University of Leeds.


The recordings by SED fieldworkers Michael Barry, Peter Wright, W. Nelson Francis and Howard Berntsen are also contained within this subseries.

Provenance

The gramophone discs in this subseries are numbered LAVC/SRE/D/2/075-385.

Original gramophone discs were transferred to the British Library in March 2019 for long term preservation and digitisation.

System of arrangement

SED recordings retained in original county and locality number order. Others organised by collector, in roughly chronological order.

Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

This collection is currently being worked on by the Special Collections team and therefore may not always be readily available for users to consult. Please contact staff in advance if you would like to access the material.

Downloadable text transcriptions (where available) are reproduced with permission from Juhani Klemola and Mark Jones. ©All Rights Reserved.

Physical and technical conditions

78 r.p.m.

Related material

Papers relating to the Survey of English Dialects are held in subfonds LAVC/SED.


Further SED fieldwork recordings, made between the late 1950s and the mid 1970s, are held on quarter-inch open reel tape at LAVC/SRE/A761r-857r.

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