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Total number of records: 312
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Orton, Harold (1898-1975) | 36 |
| Sanderson, Stewart (1924-) | 27 |
| Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009) | 12 |
| Sullivan, Keith Frederick | 9 |
| University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies | 7 |
| Tilling, Philip M (1938-) | 6 |
| Harrison, Stephen | 5 |
| Nixon, Graham | 5 |
| Brunk, Wille | 4 |
| Sykes, Donald Richard | 4 |
Archivists' Papers
1955-1992
Throughout most of its lifetime, the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) employed an archivist to manage its archive and library of dialect and folklife collections, created through the...
Folk Life File
1836-1998
This subfonds constitutes the Folk Life File, an archival resource actively created throughout the lifetime of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS), probably in relation to its Folk ...
Non-Student Research Papers
[1880] - 1992
This subfonds contains provenanced and unprovenanced papers, created and collected by students, academics and other researchers and informants from outside the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studi...
Fieldwork
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1945-1974
Correspondence between Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth regarding linguistic research and surveys, their collaboration on a linguistic atlas of England and the development of an English dialect questionna...
General Administration
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1948-1968
This sub-subseries contains documents relating both to general University administration, and to Harold Orton's day-to-day co-ordination of the Survey of English Dialects (SED). This includes receipts...
General Dialect Related Enquiries
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1929-1971
The larger part of this sub-subseries comprises letters sent to Harold Orton from members of the public, in response to newspaper articles and radio broadcasts on the Survey of English Dialects (SED)....
Philological Society
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1946-1961
The Philological Society was a supporter of Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth's early dialect survey work, including their construction of a questionnaire for use in gathering data. Orton and Dieth present...
Survey of English Dialects
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1936-1966
The papers contained within this sub-subseries describe the genesis and development of the Survey of English Dialects (SED), Harold Orton's collaboration with Eugen Dieth, their methodology, fieldwork...
Questionnaire Version 3
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)
1949-1950
This sub-subseries includes typescript papers on the progress of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire and Survey of English Dialects (SED) plans; typescript drafts of version 3 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnai...
Other Questionnaires Consulted
1931-1949
This sub-subseries includes questionnaires, and related items, on language and folk culture from England, the Netherlands, Scotland, Switzerland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Research-Related Correspondence
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1961-1979
This sub-subseries contains correspondence largely relating to Stewart Sanderson's research interests. It includes original and copy correspondence on proposals for the study of traditional culture on...
Bonfire Survey
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1967-1968
This sub-subseries contains papers relating to a collaborative survey of bonfire customs conducted by the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies at Leeds (IDFLS), and the Department of English at ...