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Archive File

Academic Correspondence File 103

1950-1956

Rohrer, Fritz. Correspondence from Harold Orton to Fritz Rohrer regarding the latter’s fieldwork in Hathersage (Derbyshire); from Peter Wright to Fritz Rohrer regarding Rohrer’s fieldwork; and bet...

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Leeds Greek Community: Preservation and Transmission of the Greek Traditional Culture

Nitsiakos, Vassilis

1982

M.A. dissertation on the preservation and transmission of Greek traditional culture in Leeds. The dissertation is in three sections: The Field, Fieldwork, The Immigrants: What Happens to their Heritag...

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Popular Beliefs and Superstitions in Iboland

Uzokwe, Francis C

1979

This file contains a paper by Francis Uzokwe of the Ministry of Education, Owerri, Nigeria, on beliefs and superstitions in Imo State, Nigeria. The paper includes a list of 30 numbered beliefs.

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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...

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Yorkshire Dialect Boundaries Map: I Am
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Yorkshire Dialect Boundaries Map: I Am

Röhrer, Fritz

[1950s]

Ms. map of Yorkshire showing the southern limit of the Northern England dialect form of (I) Am (SED question VIII.9.5), and the northern limit of the Midland dialect form of (I) Am. The map was compil...

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Weald & Downland: Walton On The Hill Group

2022-2023

Audio and related item/s (photograph/transcript) relating to oral history interview conducted (2022-2023) at partner museum with named interviewee (see file title) as part of National Lottery Heritage...

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Audio Recording: Walton On The Hill Group

Stone, Amy; Shannon-Dabek, Nadja

2022-2023

Digital recording of oral history interview conducted with named interviewee (see item title) as part of National Lottery Heritage funded, "Dialect and Heritage" Project. Interviewer(s) listed under c...

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Sound Recordings, Durham and Northumberland

Atchison, Maureen

[1964]

Songs sung by Jack Elliott[JE], Christina Short [CS] and Tom Carruthers[TC], preceded by a woman [?Mrs. Elliott] relating her recollections of a mining accident [location not given]; 'Rap 'er to Bank'...

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Transcript: Walton On The Hill Group

Hughes, Rae

2022-2023

Transcript of oral history interview conducted with named interviewee (see item title) as part of National Lottery Heritage funded, "Dialect and Heritage" Project.

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Dolphinholme, Lancashire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

24 May 1954

[Side 1] Bill describes baking oatcakes over open fire with 'spittle' [= wooden baking shovel] and 'cratch' [= drying rack], talks about owners of Wyreside Hall and working with horses, recalls runawa...

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Archive Print Item

The place-names of Wiltshire : their origin and history

Ekblom, Einar Laurentius

1917

Inaug.--Diss.--Uppsala, 1917.

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Dialectal English and the student

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1947

Reprinted from the Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, 1947.

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