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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...