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english language - dialects10
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Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Sullivan, Keith Frederick2
Bird, Elizabeth1
Brown, George1
Chomsky, Noam (1928-)1
Clark, Terence1
Dodds, William1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Hampshire, Stuart (1914-2004)1
Hayes, Raymond (1909-2000)1

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Archive File

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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'...

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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...

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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; ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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