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culture6
english language - dialects6
community life5
language and languages3
occupations3
agriculture2
animals2
buildings2
cooking2
education2

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Parry, David (1937-)6
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Sykes, Donald Richard3
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Berntsen, Howard N1
East, Alice1
Forward, Mrs (1886-1886)1
Gibson, Dr Peter H1
Haslam, Marie1
Hughes, Mr1
SED Fieldworkers Map
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SED Fieldworkers Map

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Printed map showing the areas worked in by SED fieldworkers Michael Barry, Howard Berntsen, Stanley Ellis, W. Nelson Francis, Peter Gibson, Marie Haslam, David Parry, Averil Playford, Donald Sykes, Jo...

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Monmouthshire Response Books

Sykes, Donald Richard; Parry, David (1937-)

1955-1960

Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Monmouthshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were...

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Studies in the Linguistic Geography of Radnorshire, Breconshire, Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire

Parry, David (1937-)

1964

M.A. thesis based on fieldwork carried out in 1960 in sixteen localities in Radnorshire, Breconshire, Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire. For part of the Monmouthshire material, the collector draws on t...

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Sound Recordings, Glamorgan and Monmouthshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

1965

Mrs. Forward, recorded in Cwmavon; talks about her son; the dole and Depression in the late 1920s/early 1930s; family; life in the valley; working at a furnace shovelling coal during World War One; hu...

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Sound Recordings, Powys

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

Bert Williams, recorded in Builth Wells [undated]; talks about the town as it was in his youth; describes various buildings, including a gatehouse, temperance houses, cattle market, brewery, Masonic H...

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Sound Recordings, Glamorgan and Monmouthshire

Parry, David (1937-); Kylstra, Henk E

1960-1961

[Collector announcement (Parry)]; Tom John, recorded in Pontlottyn [possibly in 1960]; talks about horse feed; straw rope; (Welsh) calls to cattle and horses; farm waggons/carts; ploughing and the qua...

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