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Sound Recording, West Midlands
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Brian Hartshorne, a butcher recorded in Wolverhampton [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A716r]; talks about slaughtering animals; pests and damaged meat; offal, blood and meat products; pickling; butcheri...
Survey of English Dialects File 6
1958-1964
“SED Lectures Mss”. Ms. paper, “A Survey of English Dialects (Read by Dr. Halliday)” delivered at the 4th Viking Congress in Leeds, 24 August 1961, and including Harold Orton’s ms. notes, an...
Survey of English Dialects File 7
1960-1965
“SED Lectures”. Harold Orton’s ms. notes on index cards for the “Leeds ESU Talk” on the Survey of English Dialects, 9 July 1963; ms. notes on index cards for the talk to the “Leeds Rotaria...
Survey of English Dialects File 4
1955-1966
“English Dialect Survey - Talks 2”. Typed draft paper, “The Linguistic Atlas of England” (3 pp.), comprising Harold Orton’s presidential address to the Philological Society, May 1955; sixtee...
Conferences and Folk Events
1974-1981
This file contains ephemera used to promote and provide information on conferences and other events related to folklore and folklife. This includes a leaflet for the 2nd Yorkshire Folk and Craft Fayre...
Locality Indexes
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1928-1939]
Ms. record cards created by Harold Orton from the Raw Material and Armstrong College Theses, for the Armstrong College Survey of Northumbrian Dialects. The cards include essentially the same informati...
Cider-Making and Brewing
1962-1975
This file contains items relating to brewing beer and cider-making, including a photocopy of Eric Sample's article on small breweries in Derby, from an unidentified issue of 'Derbyshire Countryside' (...
Treatment of Warts
[ca. late 1960s-1970s]
This file contains photocopied extracts from medical journals outlining wart treatments (dated 1927, 1940and 1965-1968). The date when the photocopies were made is not known. These include Bruno Bloch...
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...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1975
[Collector announcement]; Christopher Haddock [ Albert Haddock's brother] and Elsie Haddock, recorded at Sutton Gault on the 22 July 1975; talk about wild mushrooms and mushroom picking; mushroom ketc...
Mumming: Play Texts, Etc.
Millington, Peter T
[1960s-1970s]
This file contains photocopied and typed papers, produced and collected by Peter Millington, on mumming and mummers' plays, with particular reference to Nottinghamshire. (In the following list, a coun...