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persons20
play16
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Baldwin, John R21
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)14
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)12
Heaps, Tom7
Russell, Ian7
Martin, George6
Cook, R. G.4
Dunn, Ginette4
Powell, George4
'Dusty'3

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Little Downham Response Book - 20C1
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Little Downham Response Book - 20C1

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

17 Jun 1958 - 26 Jun 1958

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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Audio Recording: Meredith, Peter and Greta

Hall, Rosemary

28 Nov 2022

Digital recording of oral history interview conducted with named interviewee (see item title) as part of National Lottery Heritage funded, "Dialect and Heritage" Project. Interviewer(s) listed under c...

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Meredith, Peter and Greta

2022

Audio and related item/s (photograph/transcript) relating to oral history interview conducted with named interviewee (see file title) as part of National Lottery Heritage funded, "Dialect and Heritage...

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Publication File 20

1962-1971

Correspondence, congratulatory messages and telegrams between Harold Orton and various correspondents regarding the publication of the Survey of English Dialects Introduction and Northern Counties Bas...

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Academic Correspondence File 20

1966-1971

"Cassidy American - DARE Cassidy”. Correspondence from William Emerson of the National Endowment for the Humanities (United States) to Harold Orton regarding Frederic Cassidy’s application for con...

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Little Downham Response Book - 20C1
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Book I: The Farm [Little Downham Response Book]

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

17 Jun 1958 - 26 Jun 1958

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to the farm. The answers of informant Tom Heaps recorded by fieldworker Stanley Ellis in the International Pho...

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A Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations in Folk Life Studies in the University of Leeds, 1961-1970

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1971

Stewart Sanderson's published guide to theses and dissertations in folklife produced by students at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). It forms no. 1 of the IDFLS Occasional Paper...

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Transcript: Meredith, Peter and Greta

Gunns, Kathryn

28 Nov 2022

Transcript of oral history interview conducted with named interviewee (see item title) as part of National Lottery Heritage funded, "Dialect and Heritage" Project.

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Photograph: Meredith, Peter and Greta
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Photograph: Meredith, Peter and Greta

Hall, Rosemary

28 Nov 2022

Photograph of oral history interviewee (see item title) as part of National Lottery Heritage funded, "Dialect and Heritage" Project. Photographer listed under creator.

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Audio Recording: Chaplin, Sophie

Freeman, Nicola; Christian, Jennifer

2022-2023

Digital recording of oral history interview conducted with named interviewee (see item title) as part of National Lottery Heritage funded, "Dialect and Heritage" Project. Interviewer(s) listed under c...

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Illustrations File 5

1960-1969

20-21: Copies of pp.1-2 of the Survey of English Dialects Questionnaire, Book 1, 1.1-4.1, on the landscape. 2 files. [n.d.].

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Dialect recording in Wall, Northumberland

Lenihan, J M A

Jun 1939

[Side 1] Memories of various pranks incl. putting hen down neighbour's chimney and friends taking blame, remember Margaret Henderson selling tobacco for halfpenny, anecdote about Ned Telfer persuading...

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