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Total number of records: 28

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archive administration28
food27
occupations23
culture21
agriculture20
community life20
english language - dialects15
nature15
animals13
food crops13

Top 10: People and organisations

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Ambler, Pamela J3
Sullivan, Keith Frederick2
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Bradley, Tom1
Broadhead, Albert1
Broadhead, Bernard1
Brothwell, William Richard1
Brunk, Wille1
Clarke, William1

Archive File

The Living Dialect of the Village of Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire

Haslam, Marie

1954

A study of the dialect spoken in the Hertfordshire village of Wheathampstead. An introduction to the village is followed by chapters which present information on the informants, a descriptive accoun...

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Survey of English Dialects Contact Prints
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Survey of English Dialects Contact Prints

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1967

Strip of six contact prints, including two photographs of thatched corn stacks in a field near Foulden (including LAVC/PHO/P1037); and four photographs of Harold Orton in the Survey of English Dialect...

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Photographs of Traditional Work Techniques and Implements

[1960s]

The photographs in this file show farming scenes (hay gathering, PC1022, PC1053, PC1060), stone barn and cow shed constructions (PC0268, PC0269, PC0275, PC0277), cheesemaking (PC1519), buttermaking (P...

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Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire and Suffolk

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1959-1960

William Brothwell and Florence Greenwood, recorded in Wragby in April 1960; talk about foxes and shooting them; Mr. Brothwell's farming career; setting a field for ploughing; livestock; thatching and ...

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Terminology of the Beer Barrel at Queensbury Diagram
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Terminology of the Beer Barrel at Queensbury Diagram

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Ms. line diagram of a beer barrel, labelled in ms. according to the terminology used in Queensbury (West Yorkshire). The diagram was drawn by Pamela Ambler for use in her thesis on the dialect of Quee...

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Terminology of the Beer Barrel at Queensbury Diagram
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Terminology of the Beer Barrel at Queensbury Diagram

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Ms. line diagram of a beer barrel, labelled according to the terminology used in Queensbury (West Yorkshire). The labelling and title of the diagram is in typescript. The diagram was drawn by Pamela A...

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Sound Recording, Devon

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

April 1963

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Rippen, recorded in Chawleigh; talks about his age; his homes; working with his father, tying corn, at the age of eight; horse-drawn reaping machine; recollections of ...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Yorkshire locations 6Y9, 11, 13-17, 19-20. The original recordings were made by Stanley Ellis in 1952, 1953 and 1955. The da...

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Sound Recordings, Kent

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1958

[Collector announcement]; Frank Osbourne, recorded in Goudhurst in November 1958; talks about his working hours on the farm/land with horses; his agricultural labourer's wage of fourteen shillings a w...

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The Living Dialect of Queensbury, Near Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding

Ambler, Pamela J

1954

A study of the dialect spoken in Queensbury in West Yorkshire. An introduction to the town is followed by a chapter which gives a descriptive account of the dialect in 1954 (with sections on vowels ...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Commonon the 31 October 1974 ; talks about making clay ovens [learned during World War One]; farm work; church choir; family; engagement; being gassed during W...

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Exhibition Photographs and Related Papers

[1960s-1970s]

The photographs in this file have been mounted in groups according to particular subjects. Thus, there are two sheets of eight prints showing the construction and use of a hay creel (including duplica...

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