Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 7 of 7 records

Total number of records: 7

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture3
english language - dialects3
nature3
weather2
archive administration1
handicraft1
land use1
language and languages1
manners and customs1
occupations1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Reed, Harry2
Brooks, Margaret1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Joyce Oxley1
Matthewman, T. Frank1
Murray, Rhona S1
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)1
Oxley, Joyce1
Roberts, George1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 19006
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 19996
Up to latest1

Archive File

A Synchronic Study of the Dialect of Thorney, Cambridgeshire

Murray, Rhona S

1969

A study of the dialect spoken in Thorney in Cambridgeshire, based on data collected from interviews with three local informants, conducted during the Easter and summer of 1968. An introduction to th...

More details


Archive File

Ryedale Folk: Dowson, Ken

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...

More details

SED Phonological Map: Moon
Archive Item

SED Phonological Map: Moon

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed phonological map, completed in ms., for SED question VII.6.3, Moon, mapping the various vowel forms in responses collected in the Northern Counties. The map is labelled Northern E...

More details and larger image


Archive Item

Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Brooks, Margaret

17 February 1973

George Roberts, dry stone waller, interviewed in Cawthorne with T. Frank Matthewman (Chairman of Cawthorne Parish Council). GR explains dry stone wall construction techniques; source of stone; tools; ...

More details


Archive Item

Survey of English Dialects recording in Withypool, Somerset

10 Dec 1956

[Side 1] Harry talks about severe flash floods of August 1952, recalls first noticing water rising up through ground in dairy, explains how he took turns with wife to bail out dairy through night, rec...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, Somerset

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Joyce Oxley

[1956]

Harry Reed, recorded in Withypool, gives an account of the Lynmouth floods of August 1952, and in particular their effect on Withypool and the surrounding area. Describes the floodwater, the possible ...

More details


Archive File

A Phonological Analysis of a Dialect Recording of Withypool (Somerset)

Oxley, Joyce

1970

A study of the dialect spoken in Withypool, Somerset, based on the collector's analysis of a tape recording of one male speaker, made by Stanley Ellis in 1956.

More details