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english language - dialects5
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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Marsden, Stanley2
Russell, Ian2
Brennan, Michael1
Fox, Charles1
Gessler, Jean1
Hall, Rosemary1
Smith, Paul (1947-)1
Voitl, Herbert1

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Archive File

Animal Sports: Correspondence

1963-1964

This file contains a typed letter [?from Stewart Sanderson] to Mrs. E. Fieldhouse acknowledging her sending audiotapes on cock-fighting to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) (5 Jun...

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SED Informants: Kilkhampton
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SED Informants: Kilkhampton

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Typed list of SED informant details for Kilkhampton (Cornwall). The information is set out as published in the Basic Material Volumes but also includes a list of phonetic symbols to be added to fieldw...

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Photograph: Brennan, Michael
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Photograph: Brennan, Michael

Hall, Rosemary

07 Sep 2022

Photograph of oral history interviewee (see item title) as part of National Lottery Heritage funded, "Dialect and Heritage" Project. Photographer listed under creator.

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

5 October 1972

Stanley Marsden singing and talking in his home, Allen Syke Farm, in Lodge Moor, Sheffield. Talks about singing at school, and Riley Marsdensinging at the Sportsman pub, Lodge Moor. Conclusion of sess...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Scopwick, Lincolnshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

29 Sep 1952

[Side 1] Charles recalls father visiting neighbouring farmer and being shown 'gilt' [= young sow] and litter of piglets, neighbour convinced 'reckling' [= runt] unlikely to survive so Charles' father ...

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Stromata Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis

Gessler, Jean

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of Jean Gessler's 'Stromata Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis' (Bruxelles: Editions de la Librarie Encyclopédique, 1944), 153, [2] pp. The work is a collection of medieval ...

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Cradley (Herefordshire)
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Cradley (Herefordshire)

Voitl, Herbert

[1960s]

View looking down a lane towards Cradley village (Herefordshire), from Green Farm House. Survey of English Dialects (SED) locality 15/3.

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

5 October 1972

Stanley Marsden singing and talking in his home, Allen Syke Farm, in Lodge Moor, Sheffield. Talks about learning songs (from his father/a song book); pub singing; singing whilst milking cows; repertoi...

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Leeds Tailoring Industry Papers

Smith, Paul (1947-)

[1970-1992]

Items collected for a project on the Leeds tailoring industry, with related papers. A large proportion of these items are photocopies, and it is unclear when the copies were made. The date range for t...

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Lincolnshire Response Books

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1951-1960

Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Lincolnshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were ...

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