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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)153
Russell, Ian98
Dunn, Ginette85
Sullivan, Keith Frederick68
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Harrop, Peter K39
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)33
Upton, Clive S31
Green, Anthony E (1943-)27
Lenihan, J M A25

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Archive Sub-collection

Sound Recordings

1920s-1981

This subfonds contains both original and master copy fieldwork recordings, made primarily in England by fieldworkers collecting dialect data for the country-wide English Dialect Survey (later publishe...

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Audiotape Sound Recordings

1954-1981

The majority of the tapes in this series contain fieldwork recordings made by students pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate courses in folk life or dialect at the University of Leeds, through the D...

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Audio Related Material

n.d.

Additional material relating to the LAVC/SRE sound recordings collection, including items such as transcripts, table of contents, or audio ephemera that were once held with the audio recordings. Co...

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Gramophone and Long Play Disc Recordings

1920s-1981

Series of dialect rcordings that include: 1)Earlier recordings of dialect speakers from the North-East of England, made by Harold Orton and others in the late 1930s as part of the Armstrong College ...

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Sound Recording, Nottingham

Holt, Rachel A

September 1971

Market pitcher recorded at Sneinton Market, Nottingham.

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Sound Recordings, London

Beels, Gillian Rosemary

[1972]

London market street sellers' patter, selling various household items on Oxford Street and in Petticoat Lane Market. Eleven traders recorded.

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Sound Recording, [Essex]

Mahoney, Kathryn C

September 1972

Mr. Stuart and Mrs. Stuart discuss witch beliefs, the occult and Wicca.

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Sound Recordings, Essex

Mahoney, Kathryn C

[1972]

Street interviews with people [in Hadleigh] regarding witch beliefs, the occult and knowledge of a local witch, Cunning Murrell. [Trs. 1-2] Interview with Mrs. Bonser (née Murrell), regarding Cunni...

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Sound Recordings, Liverpool

Bond, Francis Keith

1973-1974

Interviews with Henry Glover of Melling [Tr. 4], and the grandparents of the collector, Mary Bickerstaffe and Robert Bickerstaffe [Tr. 5], resident in the Page Moss area of Liverpool. All discuss thei...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Unidentified female talks about her experience of living in Liverpool during World War Two - air raid shelters, songs at school, gas masks, dockers' reminiscences, rationing, wartime spirit, life at s...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Unidentified male informant talks about Army life during World War Two, rationing, and relates various humorous anecdotes. [Tr. 3] René Bond talks about her experience as a fourteen year old living...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Unidentified male (a policeman during and after World War Two) talks about Civil Defence, the Blitz on Liverpool and area, wartime spirit, the emergency services, rationing and food, anecdotal inciden...

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