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Survey of English Dialects
1893-1995
This subfonds contains Harold Orton's SED and academic related papers, and items concerning the elicitation, collection, collation and publication of English dialect data. The published data, hereafte...
BBC File 6
1948-1949
Multiple copies of draft typescripts edited by Harold Orton for a series of seven radio talks, “The History of English”, dated 1948-1949 (n.b. programmes 3 and 4 are missing); BBC European Program...
Sound Recordings, Lancashire and North Yorkshire
Cook, Catherine
1970-1971
Mr. Exley, recorded in Colne (Lancashire), talks about his hobby collecting country stories; dialect in country humour; relates stories concerning a vicar and a villager, a farmer and a late farmworke...
Morris Dancing
1963-1979
This file contains a colour section from the West Yorkshire Road Car Company calendar for 1963 on Morris dancing at Bampton, Oxfordshire; a photocopy of Roy Judge's ms. bibliography on the Cotswold Mo...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire
Baldwin, John R
1969
Mr. J. Morgan, recorded at home in South Marston; sings 'Bold Sir Rylas', 'The Parson and the Suckling Pig', 'As I was a-walking through the fields so gay' [fragment]; talks about his father's singing...
Booklists
1951-1980
These files contain bibliographies, catalogues and related items, collected by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivists and members of staff. The items were originally held in one...