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Total number of records: 8

Top 10: Subject

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community life4
culture4
animals3
english language - dialects3
holidays3
manners and customs3
nature3
occupations3
agriculture2
buildings2

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England3
Heptonstall3
Yorkshire3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Smith, Hollins5
Wright, Peter4
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Gledhill, James2
Bentley, John1
Buckland, Theresa Jill1
Caitle, Fred1
Dibnah, Miss Marjory1
Farrar, William1
Farrer1
Book I: The Farm [Heptonstall Response Book]
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Book I: The Farm [Heptonstall Response Book]

Wright, Peter

Nov 1951

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to the farm. The answers of informant Hollins Smith recorded by fieldworker Peter Wright in the International ...

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Abbots Bromley Horn Dance Interview Transcriptions

10 Dec 1975 - 11 Dec 1975

An ms. copy and a typed copy of Ann Fowell's interview transcript on the Abbots Bromley horn dance, as well as biographical information. Ms. transcript of Richard Hollins and Ken Hollins' interview on...

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Book III: Animals [Heptonstall Response Book]
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Book III: Animals [Heptonstall Response Book]

Wright, Peter

Nov 1951

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

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Heptonstall Response Book - 6Y21
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Heptonstall Response Book - 6Y21

Wright, Peter

Nov 1951

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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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Buckland, Theresa Jill

10/Dec/1975 - 10/Dec/1975

Ann Fowell, recorded in Abbots Bromley on the 10 December 1975 ; talks about the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance - the whereabouts of the whip seen in a photograph of the Hobby Horse; husband, James Fowell,...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

James Gledhill, recorded in Golcar; talks about working in a woollen cloth textile mill - processes, differences between spinning/producing woollen and worsted materials; leisure time, including a des...

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Sound Recordings, Devon and Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

March 1963

[Stanley Ellis announcement]; Samuel Snell, recorded on his farm in Swimbridge; talks about the bad winter of 1962/1963; farming sheep and beef bullocks; Devon Closewool [sheep breed]; discuss sheep f...

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Sound Recordings, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wright, Peter

[1966-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Yorkshire locations 6Y21-24, 26-29. The majority of the original recordings were made by Stanley Ellis, in 1955, 1963, 1964 ...

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