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Total number of records: 6

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
food6
community life5
nature5
occupations5
agriculture4
animals3
baked products3
cooking3
culture3
english language - dialects3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Powell, Herbert Thomas2
Tammivaara, Irmeli2
Barker, Maud1
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Beddow, William1
Bradley, Tom1
Burgess, Stan1
Burton, Tom1
Clark, Eva1

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West Midlands Responses: Book V, Part 6

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book V, Part 6: Baking. Includes questions V.6.1 Flour - V.6.12 Sad (of Bread or Pastry).

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

Herbert Powell, recorded in Sutton on the 17 June 1974 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A666r]; talks about horse-drawn cultivator/plough, and compares with modern machinery; describes harrows; hand sowi...

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Sound Recordings, Salop

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

[1966-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Salop locations 11Sa1-8. The original recordings were made in 1955 and 1966. The date when this copy tape was made is not kn...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Yorkshire locations 6Y9, 11, 13-17, 19-20. The original recordings were made by Stanley Ellis in 1952, 1953 and 1955. The da...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

[Collector announcement]; May Hard, recorded in Pymore on 13 June 1974; talks about her father's job as a blacksmith, shoes for horses and donkeys, cart repairs, making harrows, repairing/sharpening p...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Houck, Charles L

[Mid 1960s-1970s]

Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of...

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