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Uppsala Realregister - Folk Life Classification
[1965-1975]
The provenance of the original notebook, copied in this bound volume, is unclear. It is possibly a version of the classification scheme, written out by one of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life St...
Avoncroft: Woolley, Michael
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...
The Terminology of the Artificial Field Boundary: Being a Study of Words Relating to Dry Stone Walling and Hedging, Based Upon a Survey Made in Certain Parts of South Westmorland
Williams, Gerald
1954
A study of the occupational language associated with the crafts of hedging and dry stone walling, in the the south of the old county of Westmorland. The Introduction outlines the aims of the study, th...
SED Word Map: To Brew Tea
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); North, David J
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed word map for SED question V.8.9, to Brew tea, mapping responses Draw, Make, Scald and Steep.
Questionnaire Version 4
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)
1950-1951
This sub-subseries consists of typescript drafts of version 4 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. These drafts were used in the testing of this version of the Questionnaire.
Sound Recordings, Northumberland
Robson, Joanne
[1967]
Selection of folk songs from the north-east of England.
Survey of English Dialects recording in Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk
22 Jan 1957
[Side 1] Anna recalls cycling to work in Fundenhall for 20 years and to Norwich to collect fish for husband to sell during agricultural workers' strike (1923?), describes series of accidents cycling t...
West Midlands Responses: Book VII, Part 2
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VII, Part 2: Ordinals. Includes questions VII.2.1 First - VII.2.14 We Two.
West Midlands Responses: Book V, Part 2
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book V, Part 2: The House: Inside. Includes questions V.2.1 Living-Room - V.2.14 Brush.
Villages
1971
This subseries, comprising one file, contains a two-part article by John Cornforth on the village of Old Deerfield, Massachusetts, extracted from 'Country Life' magazine (22 July 1971, pp. 214-217, an...
Long Narrative Verse
[1968-1970]
This file contains four offprinted papers by Michael Cherniss on epic poems, being 'The Progress of the Hoard in Beowulf', offprinted from the 'Philological Quarterly', volume XLVII, number 4 (October...
Sound Recordings, Ireland
Taylor, Barry Roy
July 1975
Irish dance music and song recordings, featuring fiddle and uillean pipe playing. Compilation of the collector's field recordings, made in Miltown Malbay (County Clare). The fiddle and pipe playing ar...