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Total number of records: 6

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SubjectCount
culture5
english language - dialects4
community life2
agriculture1
archive administration1
communication1
communities1
folk dancing1
folk drama1
folk music1

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People and organisationsCount
Baldwin, John R1
Coates, George1
Cook, Catherine1
Exley, Mr1
Green, B.1
Morgan, J.1
Palmer, F. E.1
Powell, George1
Weatherhead, Mr1

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From 19005

Archive Sub-collection

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...

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Archive File

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...

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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...

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Archive File

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...

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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...

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Archive File

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...

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