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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...
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...
Linguistic Atlases
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1940-1972
From an early stage, Harold Orton saw the collection of dialect data and its presentation in map form as parts of the same process, and thus his lectures would necessarily cover the range of activitie...
British Broadcasting Corporation
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1948-1963
Harold Orton's (draft and final version) scripts used in his BBC radio broadcasts on the English language and dialect. These include interviews with Orton by other people, and single programmes and se...
Oxford University Summer School
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1971-1972
Correspondence and hand-outs relating to Harold Orton's two lectures on the English Dialect Survey, given as part of a Summer School at Oxford University.
Trondheim
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1967]
Harold Orton's ms. notes, written on 7" x 5" index cards numbered 1-14, for his lecture 'English Speech - Present Trends', given in Trondheimin August 1967. It is not known when he wrote these notes. ...
North American Universities
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1968-1974
Papers relating to Harold Orton's Visiting Professor appointments in North American universities, including correspondence, teaching-related items and a lecture typescript.
Illustrations
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1958-1965]
This sub-subseries contains the illustrative items Harold Orton used to accompany his lectures and talks. This includes compilation files of Questionnaire response book pages, locality and word maps, ...
Philological Studies File 1
1946
“Philological Soc., Dec. 1946”. Harold Orton’s ms. and typed script for the paper “A New Survey of Dialectal English” (11 pp.), delivered with Eugen Dieth to the Philological Society in Dec...
Philological Studies File 2
1960-1961
“Phil. Soc. Paper 10.2.1961”. Harold Orton’s typed script for the paper “A New English Dialect Survey: the Linguistic Atlas of England” (18 pp.), with his ms. emendations; examples of pages...
Survey of English Dialects File 1
1946-1947
“Talks - Dialect”. Harold Orton’s typed paper, “Dialectal English and the Student” (10 pp.), delivered to the Yorkshire Dialect Society in Sheffield, 11 May 1946; typed paper, “Dialectal E...