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community life26
culture20
occupations17
manners and customs15
english language - dialects14
nature14
agriculture13
education13
play12
food10

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Herefordshire1
Lyonshall1

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Tammivaara, Irmeli7
Houck, Charles L4
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Pate, Allan2
Powell, Herbert Thomas2
Tall, William2
Taylor, Alfred2
Warby, George2
Warby, Olive2
Wright, Peter2

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From 190025
Lyonshall Response Book - 15He7
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Lyonshall Response Book - 15He7

Wright, Peter

16 Jun 1952 - 19 Jun 1952

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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Yorkshire Castles

Taylor, Alfred

1962

This file contains articles from Alfred Taylor's 'Round Yorkshire Castles' series, published in and extracted from the 'Yorkshire Evening Post'. The complete series ran from July - October (?) 1962, a...

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Yorkshire Abbeys

Taylor, Alfred

1963

This file contains articles from Alfred Taylor's 'Bygone Abbeys of Yorkshire'/ 'Abbeys and Priories of Yorkshire'/ 'Bygone Abbeys and Priories of Yorkshire' series, published in and extracted from the...

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Herefordshire Response Books

Sykes, Donald Richard; Wright, Peter

1952-1955

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

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

[Collector announcement]; May Hard, recorded in Pymore on 13 June 1974; talks about her father's job as a blacksmith, shoes for horses and donkeys, cart repairs, making harrows, repairing/sharpening p...

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Folk Dance: General

[1971-1979]

This file contains a photocopy of the English Folk Dance and Song Society's leaflet number 15, 'Folk Dance Articles in the Journal of the English Folk Dance Society, Journal of the English Folk Dance ...

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Sky and Weather

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains items relating to weatherlore, including an ms. paper compiled by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivist Margaret Jackson, containing weatherlore, with bibliog...

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Calendar Days

1964-1972

This file contains items on calendar customs, including Valentine's Day. This includes a photocopy of typed extracts on local customs from essays on old Mansfield, written for a competition organised ...

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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...

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Sound Recording, Somerset

Ihalainen, Ossi

July 1972

Jack Spencer, recorded at home in Westhay on 15 July 1972; describes haymaking, including raking, work breaks, harnessing horses, loading waggons, drink, rick making, dinner time, food, tea, evening w...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Etheldrida Thompson, recorded in Witchford on the 14 July 1975; gives biographical details; employment as a nurse housemaid in Cambridge; parlour maid in Peterborough; [colle...

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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...

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