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Archive File

The Living Dialect of Stilton (Huntingdonshire): A Descriptive and Historical Survey

French, J F

1961

A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Stilton in Huntingdonshire, based on data collected during free-conversation interviews with three local people, conducted over two periods in 1960.

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Food (MEAL): Brown, Rosemary

2022-2023

Audio and related item/s (photograph/transcript) relating to oral history interview conducted (2022-2023) at partner museum with named interviewee (see file title) as part of National Lottery Heritage...

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SED Phonological Map: Spade
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SED Phonological Map: Spade

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed phonological map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question I.7.6, Spade, mapping the various vowel forms. The map was compiled by Harold Orton, and is dated 196...

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Audio Recording: Delves, Peggy

Morgan, Tricia; Blackmore, Pete

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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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

[1970-1971]

Male informants in conversation in a pub [?in Ramsgill, November 1970], talking about Dead Mans Hill; Yorke's Folly; the ghost of a monk at Bewerley Hall; the Yorke family. Male informants recorded ...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Buckland, Buckinghamshire

Nov 1957

[Side 1] Nellie discusses local cottage industry of straw plaiting, explains how best straw was selected from 'rick' [= stack of corn/hay] and made into bunches, describes different types of plaiting,...

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Urban Folklore

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1964-1980

This file contains items on contemporary legends and folklore, and includes an ms. letter from A. Tozer (to Stewart Sanderson?) on modern folktales (16 December 1964), prompted by an article in 'The G...

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Deerhurst (Gloucestershire)
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Deerhurst (Gloucestershire)

Voitl, Herbert

[1960s]

View looking down the main street in Deerhurst (Gloucestershire). Survey of English Dialects (SED) locality 24/1. A timber-framed dwelling house with a large chimney is visible in the distance.

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Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 2

1951-1972

This file contains 'Some Acoustic Difference between Educated Australian and General American Dialects', by T. D. Hanley and Moya Landsberg Andrews, offprinted from 'Phonetica', volume 17, number 4 (1...

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Mumming: Play Texts, Etc.

Millington, Peter T

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains photocopied and typed papers, produced and collected by Peter Millington, on mumming and mummers' plays, with particular reference to Nottinghamshire. (In the following list, a coun...

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Buckinghamshire Response Books

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1957-1958

Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Buckinghamshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses we...

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