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culture6
english language - dialects4
community life2
folk music2
language and languages2
nature2
agriculture1
archive administration1
communication1
cooking1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Fleetwood, Walter2
Frost, Ted2
Gledhill, Mrs2
North, David J2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2
Russell, Ian2
Broadhead, Bernard1
Dent, Alan1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Jelley, Susan Jennifer1

Archive File

Yorkshire Proverbial Sayings

Jelley, Susan Jennifer

1977

A collection of 190 proverbs, collected in North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire via appeals for information in the 'Yorkshire Post' and 'Farmers' Weekly' newspapers. A number of follow-up interviews wit...

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SED Word Map: That
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SED Word Map: That

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); North, David J

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question III.3.7, That (relative pronoun), mapping the distribution of the responses As and What, and areas where there was no response. The map was compiled by H...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

November-December 1970

Assembled company singing carols in the Sportsman pub, Lodge Moor, Sheffield, on 28 November 1970. Bernard Broadhead sings 'Christmas Tree'. [Tr. 1]

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Survey of English Dialects recording in All Stretton, Shropshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

Jan 1955

[Side 1] Jack talks about tax levied on smallholdings during war, recalls severe winter of 1947, comments no compensation for loss of sheep, describes elderly neighbour and family, memories of village...

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SED Word Map: That
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SED Word Map: That

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); North, David J

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question III.3.7, That (relative pronoun), mapping the distribution of the responses As and What, and areas where there was no response. The map is labelled as a ...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Dent, Alan; Russell, Ian

December 1970

Assembled company singing carols in the Sportsman pub, Crosspool, Sheffield, on the 12 December 1970. [Tr. 1]

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Plant Lore

1961-1980

This file includes an ms. letter from Gillian Bulmer to Stewart Sanderson on names of apples (12 November 1975); a photocopy of Grace Pleasant Wellborn's paper on plantlore in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'T...

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