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Total number of records: 17

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture11
english language - dialects7
community life6
folk music6
manners and customs5
occupations3
persons3
art2
communication2
folklore2

Count of Place

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England4
Norfolk4
Pulham St Mary4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Daniels, Thomas4
Francis, W Nelson (1910-2002)4
Adcock, Townson3
Daniel, Tom3
Green, Anthony E (1943-)3
("Rickety")2
Semmens, Albert2
Chomsky, Noam (1928-)1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Ewing, Bill1

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Academic Correspondence File 66

1946-1952

Jones, David. Correspondence between Harold Orton and Daniel Jones regarding lecturing in Phonetics at the University of Leeds; the Simplified Spelling Society and simplified spelling (including a cop...

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Book V: The House and Housekeeping [Pulham St Mary Response Book]
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Book V: The House and Housekeeping [Pulham St Mary Response Book]

Francis, W Nelson (1910-2002)

7 Feb 1957 - 12 Feb 1957

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to the house and housekeeping.

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Book I: The Farm [Pulham St Mary Response Book]
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Book I: The Farm [Pulham St Mary Response Book]

Francis, W Nelson (1910-2002)

7 Feb 1957 - 12 Feb 1957

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to the farm. The answers of informant Thomas Daniels and Townson Adcock recorded by fieldworker W. Nelson Fran...

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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Heath, Christopher D

1967-1968

This tape contains three 1967 BBC Radio broadcasts by Stanley Ellis, from his 'Dialects in Britain' series; a radio interview with Noam Chomsky, entitled Language Generator [no date]; and Daniel Jones...

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Pulham St Mary Response Book - 21Nf12
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Pulham St Mary Response Book - 21Nf12

Francis, W Nelson (1910-2002)

7 Feb 1957 - 12 Feb 1957

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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Yorkshire Broadsheet

Daniel, Tom

1966

This file contains two copies of a collection of folk songs collected, revised, or rewritten by Tom (Tommy) Daniel of York. The collection includes song texts and notes on the songs. The songs include...

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Academic Correspondence File 11

1967

"Kansas Papers 1967”. Correspondence between Harold Orton and correspondents at the University of Kansas regarding the purchase of a tape recorder; Orton’s correspondence with Linguaphone regardin...

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Wall Painting (Sweden)
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Wall Painting (Sweden)

March 1965

Slide of Ivares Daniel Andersson's wall painting, 'The Ascension of Elijah'/ 'Elie Himmelsfärd', Rättvik (Dalarnas Lan, Sweden). The painting is an example of the Dalamälning style of folk art, w...

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Wall Painting (Sweden)
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Wall Painting (Sweden)

March 1965

Slide of Ivares Daniel Andersson's wall painting, 'The Queen of Sheba'/ 'Drottningen av Saba', Rättvik (Dalarnas Lan, Sweden). The painting is an example of the Dalamälning style of folk art, whic...

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Language Papers

Strevens, Peter

1961-1966

This file contains a typed draft version of a paper for a Festschrift for Daniel Jones, 'Phonetics, Applied Linguistics, and Other Components of Language-Teaching' (1961), 15 leaves; a typed working d...

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Folk Song

1958-1981

This sub-subseries contains items on folk song, including texts and tunes. These include copies of song texts submitted by various informants to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS);...

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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1964-1966

Female sings 'Barbary Ellen' and 'Red Haired Sally' [second in Gaelic]. [Tr. 2] James Lyons relates a story about a Russian performing bear in Batley and Dewsbury (c. 1910s); and a clinkin' toad (wa...

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