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The Living Dialect of Stilton (Huntingdonshire): A Descriptive and Historical Survey
French, J F
1961
A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Stilton in Huntingdonshire, based on data collected during free-conversation interviews with three local people, conducted over two periods in 1960.
Food (MEAL): Brown, Rosemary
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...
SED Phonological Map: Spade
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question I.7.6, Spade, mapping the various vowel forms. The map was compiled by Harold Orton, and is dated 196...
Audio Recording: Delves, Peggy
Morgan, Tricia; Blackmore, Pete
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...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Cook, Catherine
[1970-1971]
Male informants in conversation in a pub [?in Ramsgill, November 1970], talking about Dead Mans Hill; Yorke's Folly; the ghost of a monk at Bewerley Hall; the Yorke family. Male informants recorded ...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Buckland, Buckinghamshire
Nov 1957
[Side 1] Nellie discusses local cottage industry of straw plaiting, explains how best straw was selected from 'rick' [= stack of corn/hay] and made into bunches, describes different types of plaiting,...
Signposts to the past : place-names and the history of England
Gelling, Margaret
1978
Bibliography: pages 241-246. - Includes index.
Möbleringsskicket i Ydre härad i Östergötland
Olsson, Marianne 1919-
[1963]
"Särtryck ur Meddelanden från Östergötlands och Linköpings stads museum 1962-1963".
Urban Folklore
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1964-1980
This file contains items on contemporary legends and folklore, and includes an ms. letter from A. Tozer (to Stewart Sanderson?) on modern folktales (16 December 1964), prompted by an article in 'The G...
Deerhurst (Gloucestershire)
Voitl, Herbert
[1960s]
View looking down the main street in Deerhurst (Gloucestershire). Survey of English Dialects (SED) locality 24/1. A timber-framed dwelling house with a large chimney is visible in the distance.
Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 2
1951-1972
This file contains 'Some Acoustic Difference between Educated Australian and General American Dialects', by T. D. Hanley and Moya Landsberg Andrews, offprinted from 'Phonetica', volume 17, number 4 (1...
Mumming: Play Texts, Etc.
Millington, Peter T
[1960s-1970s]
This file contains photocopied and typed papers, produced and collected by Peter Millington, on mumming and mummers' plays, with particular reference to Nottinghamshire. (In the following list, a coun...