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Archive Sub-collection

Artefacts

[1950-1970]

Material artefacts collected by staff (and students?) of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS), including a scud winder, a decorated egg and two sets of printing matrices.

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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...

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Orton Corpus

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1928-2003

Manuscript and typescript items relating to the Survey of Northumbrian Dialects conducted by Harold Orton during his time at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. These items include fieldwork and r...

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Survey of English Dialects

1893-1995

This subfonds contains Harold Orton's SED and academic related papers, and items concerning the elicitation, collection, collation and publication of English dialect data. The published data, hereafte...

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Dialect and Heritage Project Oral Histories

2022 - 2023

Oral History recordings made by staff, students, volunteers and partner museums as part of the 'Dialect and Heritage' project that ran 2019 -2023. Some recordings also include transcripts and phot...

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TOLSTOI, Lev Nikolaevich (1828-1910) (1)

[1900s]-1984

Copy letter from Charles Salomon to S L and T L Tolstoi (1922) /1/. Note about (1) by Serge Tolstoi /2/. Dorothy Galton "Tolstoi and Beekeeping" (tape-recording), L N Tolstoi text extract about bees ...

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Maps

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1950s-mid 1970s]

This subfonds contains a collection of maps that cannot be specifically linked with either the Survey of English Dialects (SED) publication programme, or with the activities of the Institute of Dialec...

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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 ...

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Non-Institute Surveys

[1928]-1985

The folklore, folklife and linguistic surveys represented in this subfonds were initiated and co-ordinated by research institutes, universities and individuals in Europe and North America. Items relat...

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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...

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The Linguistic Atlas of England

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1960-1980

This subfonds contains papers relating to the preparation, editing and publication of text and maps for 'The Linguistic Atlas of England' (LAE). It includes editorial notes and papers; ms. and typescr...

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A Word Geography of England

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1970-1977

This subfonds includes items relating to the production of 'A Word Geography of England' (WGE), the first linguistic atlas based on the Survey of English Dialects to be published. It consists of edito...

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