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The Feast of the Wolf
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1960-1971
This subseries contains items relating to Blackburn's vampire novel 'The Feast of the Wolf' which was published in 1971. The novel itself includes some autobiographical elements and is influenced by F...
Inroads on Dying
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1960-1977
This subseries contains items relating to an unpublished work by Thomas Blackburn on the theme of death and dying in poetry and English literature. The paranormal, death and dying are all popular them...
Administration
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1980-1983
Papers concerned with administrative matters relating to Sanderson as Director of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). These include typed memos regarding the acquisition of videota...
Verse
[1960s-1970s]
This subseries contains items relating to verse and folk poetry. The subject matter includes British monologues; long narrative verse including 'Beowulf' and other Old English poetry; copies of pages ...
Questionnaire Response Books: Miscellaneous Items
[ca. 1950]
This subseries consists of various forms of printed, blank (i.e. not completed in ms.) pages intended for recording the responses of informants to elements of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire.
Press Reports and Reviews
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1935-1959
Newspaper cuttings taken from local, regional, national and international issues reporting the work of Orton and the Survey, fieldwork, lectures given by Orton, local dialect and other language-relate...
Temporary Dwellings
1972
This subseries, comprising one file, contains mounted cuttings from 'Country Life' magazine on dwellings made from upturned boats at Pett Level, East Sussex, and Loch Long, Dunbartonshire. (There is s...
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...
Reviews (Academic)
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1952-1971
Offprint and photocopied reviews of 'A Questionnaire for a Linguistic Atlas of England', the SED Basic Material volumes ( Introduction and Volume 1, parts 1-3) and British and American dialect atlases...
Fieldwork and Research
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1893-1974
The diffuse nature of the subject content of this subseries highlights Harold Orton's broad-ranging interest in language, language research and folk life, including in particular, phonetics ( Yorkshir...
Text
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1968-1978]
This subseries comprises papers relating to the drafting and editing of the text for 'The Linguistic Atlas of England' (LAE), in preparation for publication. It includes Harold Orton's and Stewart San...
The Human Being
1969-1974
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items relating to the human body. This includes a photocopy of a short article from 'The Guardian' on left-handedness (5 May 1974); and a mounted mag...