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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...
West Country Folklore Pamphlets
1969-1975
This file contains pamphlets from the 'West Country Folklore Series', edited by Theo Brown. The pamphlets in this file relate to the folklore of Dorset and Devon, although the series covers all counti...
Two Stirlingshire Hero-Combat Plays
1980
This file contains a pamphlet published by the University of Stirling in 1980, containing the texts of two hero-combat plays from the Stirlingshire area. These are 'Galations', as printed in a pamphle...
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 ...
Tape Recording of Local Dialect
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1971
Two photocopies of a paper by Stanley Ellis, outlining the methodology and equipment used in the tape recording of local dialect. Copied from a pamphlet published in 1971 for the Standing Conference o...
The Helston Furry Dance
Cunnack, Edward M
1963
This file contains a photocopy of Edward Cunnack's pamphlet on the Helston Furry Dance (Helston: Flora Day Association and the Stewards of the Helston Furry Dance, 1963) 20 pp. This includes a descrip...
Miscellaneous Folklore Papers
1964-1979
Pamphlet by Charles Phythian-Adams, 'Local History and Folklore: A New Framework' ([London]: Standing Conference for Local History, 1975), 39 pp.; reprint from the 'Journal of the Folklore Institute',...
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 ...
Regional Social Histories
1969-1982
This subseries contains items relating largely to the social history of specific areas, including details of folk custom. Of the subseries' eight component parts, six are photocopies of original manus...
Skin and Leatherwork; Shoe and Clogmaking
1962-1979
This file contains items relating to clogs and clogmaking, including typed notes on the clogger, Lancashire clogs, and questions on clogs and cloggers, from Burnley Grammar School for the G.C.E. in Ha...
The Phonology of the Dialect of Minster-in-Thanet in the County of Kent
Cook, Margaret
1973
A study of the dialect spoken in the Kent village of Minster-in-Thanet, based on conversations with two local male informants.
Legends
1961-1972
The file contains a copy of Theo Brown and Stephen Dewar's pamphlet, 'Ghostly Gold and Goblin Tunes: Archaeological Apparitions and Traditions' (St. Peter Port: Toucan Press, 1969), 11 pp.; Malcolm Ba...