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Preston Guild Merchant: A Study of Traditional Involvement in a Civic Ceremony
Monaghan, Ann M
1974
A dissertation providing impressions of the 1972 Preston Guild Merchant ( Preston, Lancashire), based on personal observation and interviews with local people (who also provided information on the 195...
Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Monaghan, Ann M
1973
Continuation of interview, started on tape A019, with ? Frank Hartley in Preston, regarding the Preston Guild of 1972 - local reaction after the event, cost of the event and commercial benefits, publi...
Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Monaghan, Ann M
1973
Male informant [? Mr. Suddell - informant refers to an ancestor, Roger Suddell; nephew, Paul, also contributes], recorded in Preston, gives a history of the Preston Guild; church processions, trades p...
Sound Recordings, Devon
Wright, John T
October 1958
[Announcement, ?by Tony Green]; Ernest Smythe, recorded in Parracombe; talks about working life on the railway (as office boy, timekeeper); gangs working on the line, and the difficulty of building it...
Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)
[1967-1980]
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Lincolnshire locations 10L4-15. The original recordings were made in 1952, 1953, 1960 and 1967. The date when this copy tape...
Village and Farm
1960-1973
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items on village and farm life, and related topics. This includes W. E. Tate's paper, 'Parish Records and the English Village Community', extracted f...
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture, (Survey of English Dialects, and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies)
University of Leeds
1836-2003
The Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture comprises the combined multiple media holdings of the archives of the Survey of English Dialects (ca. 1946-1978) directed by Harold Orton, and the University of...
Questionnaire Response Books
1950-1961
This subseries contains the original response books in which the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers recorded informants' responses to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. A response book exists f...