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The Linguistic Atlas of England: Reviews and Articles
1975-1980
This file contains newspaper cuttings, magazine extracts and photocopied articles relating to the Survey of English Dialects (SED) and the publication of 'The Linguistic Atlas of England' (LAE). The...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
2 April 1976
Bill Stomper, recorded at home in Rosedale Abbey; talks about the village, changes and loss of community spirit; harvest suppers and singing; dialect songs; favourite songs; Fred Linley; Arthur Champi...
Other Fieldwork Data
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1928-1939]
Ms. record cards compiled by Harold Orton from his own field recordings and from Armstrong College theses, containing background information on the periods of fieldwork, biographical information on in...
Papers on the Museums Association and its Training Courses
Museums Association
1968-1980
Museums Association Information Sheets no. 7, 'Copyright Law Concerning Works of Art, Photographs and the Written and Spoken Word' (2nd ed., 1974), and no. 20, 'Reproduction Fees, Photography, etc.: G...
English Dialect Sound Recordings (Northern England)
Hornsby, G; Lenihan, J M A; Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Riddell, William
[1939]
The majority of recordings were made for the Survey of Northumbrian Dialects, in 1938 and 1939. This survey was inaugurated at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (then part of the University of Du...
Sports and Athletic Games
1961-1974
This file contains items relating to sports and games of athletic ability, skill, strength and endurance. This includes a copy of 'The Ancient Haxey Hood Game (An Ancestor of Football?)', by J. W. ff....
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
6 January 1977
[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; talks about Gypsy Traveller music and singing; local dance bands and musicians; the song 'Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major'...
Sound Recordings, County Durham
Upton, Clive S
May 1974
[Collector announcement]; William Dodds, recorded at home in Ebchester on the 14 May 1974; examines and describes archaeological artefacts, excavated by him during the previous six years from the site...
Sound Recordings, North East England
Bird, Elizabeth
November 1973
[Collector announcement]; Evelyn Johnston talks about the Black Watch Jazz Band of Bedlington (Northumberland) during the period 1927-1928; boy and girl members; uniform; instruments; batons; mascot; ...
History and Blood Groups in the British Isles
Potts, William Taylor Windle (1928-)
1973
Copy of a paper delivered at the Medieval Settlement Seminar at the School of History, University of Leeds, 1 June 1973. This examines the distribution of blood groups and gene frequencies in differen...
Sound Recordings, Staffordshire
Heath, Christopher D
1967-1968
This tape contains three 1967 BBC Radio broadcasts by Stanley Ellis, from his 'Dialects in Britain' series; a radio interview with Noam Chomsky, entitled Language Generator [no date]; and Daniel Jones...
Orton Corpus
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1928-2003
Manuscript and typescript items relating to the Survey of Northumbrian Dialects conducted by Harold Orton during his time at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. These items include fieldwork and r...