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The Living Dialect of Midgley in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Marchington, Stella
1956
A study of the dialect spoken in Midgley, in the old West Riding of Yorkshire, based on the collector's interviews with seven local informants, and an audio recording of a Midgley speaker made by Stan...
Dales (DCM): Easterby, Andrew
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...
SED Phonological Map: Thursday
[1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map, completed in ms., for SED question VII.4.3, Thursday, mapping the vowel types of responses with unstressed syllables. The map is labelled as a draft.
Durham Response Books
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1953-1954
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Durham to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were record...
Russekeila
Brunk, Wille
[1967]
This file contains printed maps produced following excavations at a settlement in Russekeila, Spitsbergen Island, Norway. Brunk appears to have been interested in the architectural aspects of the sett...
Sound Recordings, Nigeria
Olayemi, Rufus V K
[1960s]
Adult male and child informants, recorded in Nigeria, singing/chanting Nigerian folk tales, with listeners'/audience responses and participation. Tales told in the Egba, Odeda, Egbado, Anago and Awori...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Raglan, Monmouthshire
09 Dec 1955
[Side 1] Mrs. Pearson discusses village school and memories of village schoolmaster, comments family butcher closed recently, talks about first job in domestic service at Troy House in Monmouth, recal...
Beastings Research
Brunk, Wille
[1967]
Items relating to Wille Brunk's research into beastings, i.e. the first milk drawn from a cow after calving (or bovine colostrum), and its uses. Brunk conducted much of this research through the use o...
Animals and Birds
1949-1981
This file contains items on folklore and terminology associated with animals and birds. This includes a photocopy of Tom Hey's article on Yorkshire names for wild birds, from the 'Dalesman', volume 40...
Yorkshire Response Books
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wright, Peter
1950-1953
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Yorkshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were rec...