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Archive File

Two Generations of the Dialect of Kibblesworth, County Durham: A Synchronic Comparison

Shields, Marilyn

1970

A study of the dialect spoken in Kibblesworth, County Durham, based on interviews conducted with two male informants (aged sixty-nine and twenty-one) during Easter 1969.

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Ryedale Folk: Hunter, Bob

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: Home
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SED Phonological Map: Home

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed phonological map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question VIII.5.2 (Stay at) Home, mapping vowel forms. The map is headed Survey of English Dialects: Northern ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Brooks, Margaret

16 February 1973

Myers Johnson, recorded [?at home] in Kettlesing [daughter also present]; gives biographical information and talks about the Dacre parish (his birthplace); closure of local chapels; wartime recollecti...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Horsington, Somerset

Jul 1956

[Side 1] Percy talks about current 'cow-dog' [= dog trained to work with cattle], explains dog clipped annually by local pedigree breeder, reflects on horses' and cattle's ability to understand and ob...

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A Phonological Study of the Dialects of Northumberland

Smith, Patricia Anne

1954

A study of the dialects spoken in Northumberland, based on fieldwork undertaken in the county in 1953 by Stanley Ellis, for the Survey of English Dialects. An introduction to the seven villages comp...

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Hops and Hop-Picking

[ca. late 1960s]

This file contains items collected for P. K. Kemp's undergraduate dissertation on migrant hop-pickers in Kent, submitted to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies in 1970. The includes a photo...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Brooks, Margaret

16 February 1973

Myers Johnson, dry stone waller, recorded outside in Kettlesing, talks about the village and his roles in the parish (officer, committee member); shows walls he has built himself; describes constructi...

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Orthographic Transcriptions

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

1956-1963

Typed transcriptions (by Stanley Ellis) of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) audio-recordings, made in Horsington (1956) and South Zeal (1963); and a typed paper by Martyn Wakelin, 'The...

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Tape Recording Transcriptions

1956-1970

Typed transcriptions of Anglo-Manx ( Isle of Man) dialect ( Michael Barry, 1966) and East Yorkshire dialect ( John Widdowson, 1970). Also typed transcriptions of Survey of English Dialects (SED) infor...

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