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SED Word Map: Cowhouse
[1960s-mid 1970s]
Experimental printed word map, completed in typescript, for SED question I.1.8, Cowhouse, showing distribution of responses Cow-Hovel, Cow-Stable, and Cow-Pen.
SED Word Map: Cowhouse
[1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed word map for SED question I.1.8, Cowhouse, mapping the distribution of the response Cowshed. The map is labelled Pl.12.9, 29.12/15, 35.1, 40.6, Cows' sheds 31.9.
Illustrations File 3
1960-1969
15-18: Diagrams of a hedge, gate and fence; a plough harness; a plough and field ploughing plan; and a shippon/barn, all with parts labelled orthographically and phonetically. Also, a strip of eleven ...
Northamptonshire Response Books
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1957
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Northamptonshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses w...
Yorkshire Abbeys
Taylor, Alfred
1963
This file contains articles from Alfred Taylor's 'Bygone Abbeys of Yorkshire'/ 'Abbeys and Priories of Yorkshire'/ 'Bygone Abbeys and Priories of Yorkshire' series, published in and extracted from the...
Calendar Days
1964-1972
This file contains items on calendar customs, including Valentine's Day. This includes a photocopy of typed extracts on local customs from essays on old Mansfield, written for a competition organised ...
Treatment of Warts
[ca. late 1960s-1970s]
This file contains photocopied extracts from medical journals outlining wart treatments (dated 1927, 1940and 1965-1968). The date when the photocopies were made is not known. These include Bruno Bloch...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1975
[Collector announcement]; Alice Baker, recorded at Pymore on the 17 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A673r]; talks about March dust storms; floods of 1912 and 1950s; the condition of local (dro...
Survey of English Dialects File 3
[1946?]-1958
“Eng. Dialect Survey - Talks La. Dialect Soc.”. Untitled typed paper (18 pp.) headed “Yorkshire Audience” [referring to the Yorkshire Dialect Society?]; ms. notes, “Lecture to Leeds G[rammar...
Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
1964-1966
Unedited Field Master tape. Male sings [4 unidentified, one a fragment]. [Tr. 6] Female sings [2 unidentified]. [Tr. 7] Singers [?recorded in a pub]. Male sings 'Don't Go Down the Mine Dad' [par...
The Linguistic Atlas of England: Reviews and Articles
1975-1980
This file contains newspaper cuttings, magazine extracts and photocopied articles relating to the Survey of English Dialects (SED) and the publication of 'The Linguistic Atlas of England' (LAE). The...