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Sound Recording, Nottingham
Holt, Rachel A
September 1971
Market pitcher recorded at Sneinton Market, Nottingham.
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.
SED Fieldworkers Map
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1950s-1960s]
Printed map, completed in ms., showing the areas worked in by SED fieldworkers Stanley Ellis, Peter Wright, Donald Sykes, Peter Gibson and John T. Wright. At the stage the map was produced, fieldwork ...
Skeleton Network Map
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1950s-1960s]
Printed map, completed in ms., showing the network of localities in which fieldwork was to be undertaken for the SED. The map is headed, The Skeleton Network, and shows Selected Localities (i.e. local...
Map of SED Localities Investigated
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid 1950s-1960s]
Printed map, completed in ms., mapping SED localities investigated up to 30 November 1955. The map is headed English Dialect Survey in ms., and was created by Harold Orton.
Map of SED Localities Investigated
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1960s]
Printed map, completed in ms. and typescript, mapping SED localities investigated up to 12 August 1959. The map is headed English Dialect Survey in typescript, and is initialled H.O. ( Harold Orton) a...
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, ...
Questionnaire Version 1
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)
1946-1947
This sub-subseries includes typescript drafts of version 1 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire; correspondence with the Yorkshire Dialect Society; an ms. notebook and fieldwork response books belonging t...
Questionnaire Version 2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)
1948-1949
This sub-subseries includes typescript drafts of version 2 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire; and ms. fieldwork response books, completed by H. Collins, Harold Orton, and Peter Wright, recording the te...
Published Versions of the Questionnaire
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)
1952-1953
This sub-subseries includes ms. fieldwork response books completed by Harold Orton, recording the testing of version [5] of the Questionnaire in locations in Essex and Shropshire; the Dieth-Orton Ques...
Northumberland Response Books
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1953-1955
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Northumberland to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses wer...
Yorkshire Localities
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1950s]
This file contains papers relating to the development of the Yorkshire Network of Localities. It includes an ms. list, 'Places Recorded by Ellis in Yorkshire'; an ms. map of Yorkshire with Yorkshire S...