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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire
Shaw, David H
1955
Bob King and his wife, recorded in Totternhoe;[Gap, 2 mins.]; Mr. King describes some [?local] caves; Sunday School treats; visitors to the area and locals serving tea to them; local people; the litan...
Letters on the subject of Dr. Knight's lecture, "On the causes which have contributed to produce a greater degree of intemperance in the habits of the people of England than prevails on the continent;" : delivered before the members of the Sheffield Mechanics' Institution
Gilbert Mrs. (of Nottingham); Beverley, R M (1868); Knight, Arnold James
1836
"Reprinted from the Iris Newspaper".
Letters on the subject of Dr. Knight's lecture, "On the causes which have contributed to produce a greater degree of intemperance in the habits of the people of England than prevails on the continent;" : delivered before the members of the Sheffield Mechanics' Institution
Gilbert Mrs. (of Nottingham); Beverley, R M (1868); Knight, Arnold James
1836
"Reprinted from the Iris Newspaper".
Sound Recordings, [Location Unknown]
Bell, Brigid M
28 December 1978
[Collector announcement: interviews with collector's parents and paternal grandmother]; Mary Bell talks about Christmas as a child in Ireland - food, no alcohol; Christmas as mother of collector's fat...
Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)
[1967-1980]
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Lincolnshire locations 10L4-15. The original recordings were made in 1952, 1953, 1960 and 1967. The date when this copy tape...
Historical Events
1969-1975
This file contains Theo Brown's pamphlet, 'Trojans in the West Country' (St. Peter Port: Toucan Press, 1970), 16 pp.; L. V. Grinsell's pamphlet on the folklore of Stanton Drew (St. Peter Port: Toucan ...
Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 3
1960-1979
This file contains a photocopy of Vivienne Furze's paper on the Devonshire dialect, from an unidentified publication, pp. 20-21; an ms. orthographic and phonetic transcription of Purbeck marblers' dia...
Dialect and Linguistic Pamphlets
1940-1974
This file contains 19 dialect- and linguistics-related pamphlets, offprints and reprints, deposited in the Dialect File. Many include inscriptions from the author to Harold Orton. Includes: - Der La...
St. George and the Dragon: A Study in Folk Art
Green, R J
1964
M.A. study [submitted as part of an English Literature degree] comprising ten chapters and five appendices. These discuss definitions of the folk play (with reference made to related calendar customs)...
Here are several queries put forth in print for all, or any of you whose names are here under written... For Robert Gell ... William Lilly ... John Booker
Fox, George (1624-1691)
1657
Signed at end: G.F. [i.e. George Fox]. Erratum: p. 16.