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Archive File

Ulster Dialect Archive Bulletin

Ulster Folk Museum. Dialect Archive

1965

This file contains issues 1 and 2 of the 'Ulster Dialect Archive Bulletin' (January and April 1965). The bulletins are accompanied by a typed letter from G. B. Adams to Harold Orton, and a leaflet and...

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Archive Collection

Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture, (Survey of English Dialects, and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies)

University of Leeds

1836-2003

The Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture comprises the combined multiple media holdings of the archives of the Survey of English Dialects (ca. 1946-1978) directed by Harold Orton, and the University of...

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Notes on Gramophonic Recording of Yorkshire Dialects

Bruff, Harold J L

1926

Copy of a typed paper delivered to the Yorkshire Dialect Society, and subsequently issued in a limited edition of 50 copies. The paper outlines a proposal for the construction of a sound archive of Yo...

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Om Avlyssning och Utskrivning av Dialekttexter i Fonogram: Några Erfarenheter och Problem

Hedblom, Folke (1908-)

1966

This file contains a typed paper by Folke Hedblom in Swedish, on listening to and transcribing dialect samples from phonographic sound recordings, [31] leaves. This includes sections on potential prob...

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Addendum to Theses

Nalder, Peter Francis

1967

This addendum contains the compiler's thoughts on three theses held in the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies archive. The theses under consideration are Maxine Baker's study of songs of the p...

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Archive Sub-collection

Dialect and Heritage Project Oral Histories

2022 - 2023

Oral History recordings made by staff, students, volunteers and partner museums as part of the 'Dialect and Heritage' project that ran 2019 -2023. Some recordings also include transcripts and phot...

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Archive File

Folktales: Miscellaneous 2

[1970-1973]

This file contains items relating to folklore and folktale, including folktales from Sub-Saharan Africa. This includes a photocopy of an ms. paper by Lindi Shembi Williams of the University of Botswan...

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Archive Sub-collection

Folk Life File

1836-1998

This subfonds constitutes the Folk Life File, an archival resource actively created throughout the lifetime of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS), probably in relation to its Folk ...

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Folk Drama: General

1956-1980

This file contains a copy of Alex Helm's typed 'Index of Folk Plays' (complete to June 1956), [41] leaves, with ms. annotations; a copy of 'Traditional Drama: S[urvey of] L[anguage and] F[olklore]. Re...

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Archive File

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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Archive Item

Sound Recordings, London

Dunn, Ginette

1974

George Belton, recorded in the Rising Sun pub in Catford on 21 May 1974; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', 'Never No More for Me'; tells joke about two men in a psychiatric hospital; s...

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Archive Series

Dialect File

[1933-1998]

This series contains items deposited in the Dialect File. In addition to papers on aspects of dialects and language, in particular English and United States English, the series includes glossaries of ...

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