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Correspondence
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1929-1975
Original incoming and copies of outgoing letters between Harold Orton and Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers, publishers, editors, university administrators and academics. These relate to O...
Press Conferences and Announcements
E. J. Arnold and Son Limited; University of Leeds
1962-1971
Items relating to the launch of Survey of English Dialects Basic Material volumes in London, Leeds and Birmingham.
Correspondence
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1956-1983
This subseries comprises the correspondence of Stewart Sanderson during his appointment as Director of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The correspondence largely concerns the c...
Correspondence
Brunk, Wille
1965-1967
This subseries contains correspondence, research papers and newsletters, received by Wille Brunk during his assistant lectureship at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). This includ...
Communications
1963-1973
This subseries contains items relating to modes of travel and communications. The subject matter broadly includes roads and tracks, the bicycle and its use in modern society, horse-drawn vehicles and ...
Classes of the Community
1972
This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains Christopher Sykes' article, 'The Last of the Wold Rangers', extracted from 'Country Life' (31 August 1972), pp. 504-505. The article focusses on...
Lectures and Talks
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1936-1974
Harold Orton promoted the Survey of English Dialects (SED), and the proposed Linguistic Atlas of England, to academic and public audiences at home and abroad, through the writing of papers for present...
Lectures and Talks
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1973-1982
This subseries comprises papers relating to Sanderson's lecturing activities. These particular lectures were delivered to professional academic bodies rather than being related to Sanderson's teaching...
Swedish Folklife Surveys
[1957-1970]
Surveys co-ordinated by the Institute for Folk Life Studies (Lund University), the Institute for Dialect and Folklore Research at Uppsala ( Landsmåls- och folkminnesarkivet i Uppsala), and an atlas o...
Lectures
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1949-1969
Orton's published articles and draft typescripts of talks given in England and overseas on the history and development, aims and objectives, of the English Dialect Survey/Survey of English Dialects.
Corrections and Revisions
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1973-1974
This subseries consists of papers relating to emendations and revisions to the text and maps of the WGE. It includes typed lists of revisions (some with ms. annotations); corrected proofs; Harold Orto...
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...