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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...
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...
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]
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...
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 ...
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]
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...