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Total number of records: 118

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community life118
culture118
english language - dialects118
vehicles118
occupations110
agriculture97
nature93
animals92
food84
implements, utensils etc81

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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)68
Fothergill, George William45
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)11
Fothergill, Mrs11
Pyne, William Henry (1769-1843)4
Wakelin, Martyn F4
Hodgson, John Oswald3
Houck, Charles L3
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Panheinen, Ossi3
French Language Survey: Farm Cart Terminology
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French Language Survey: Farm Cart Terminology

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Copy of a page from a published French language survey (unidentified), illustrating items 839 and 840 relating to the hitching and unhitching of wagons/farm carts drawn by draft animals. Each item is ...

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SED Phonological Map: Spokes
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SED Phonological Map: Spokes

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Mid 1960s-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed phonological map, completed in ms., for SED question I.9.6, Spokes, mapping the various vowel forms found in Northern Counties responses. The map was compiled by Harold Orton, and...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Houck, Charles L

[Mid 1960s-1970s]

Interview with male informant in his home in Leeds, recorded as part of the collector's sociolinguistic inquiry in the city. The recording was made using a radio transmitter in the informant's house, ...

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Suffolk Punch Lithograph

[1970s]

Photograph of a lithograph of a Suffolk Punch stallion. The lithograph is by William Nicholson from a painting by Mr. Shiels, and appears in David Low's 'The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the Brit...

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The Living Dialect of Great Hale, Lincolnshire

Brown, Robin

1960

A study of the dialect spoken in Great Hale in Lincolnshire, based on data collected through interviews with five local informants over the Easter to August period in 1959, printed sources and referen...

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Farm Cart Aquatint
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Farm Cart Aquatint

[1970s]

Photograph of an aquatint illustration by William Pyne, of a farm cart (with unidentified load) being drawn by two horses. The horses are harnessed one in front of the other. The aquatint dates from 1...

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Glossaries, Etc.

Hudleston, Nigel A

[1950s]

These files contain four undated typed papers, annotated in ms., containing dialect glossaries (mostly Yorkshire based) and data on Yorkshire folklife, and diagrams illustrating wagons and cottages. ...

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Sound Recordings, East Anglia and Scotland

BBC; Parker, Charles (1919-1980)

[1950s]

'Singing the Fishing', the third of eight radio ballads transmitted by the BBC Home Service between July 1958 and April 1964. This programme was produced by Charles Parker, written by Ewan MacColl and...

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Sound Recordings, East Anglia and Scotland

BBC; Parker, Charles (1919-1980)

[1950s]

'Singing the Fishing', the third of eight radio ballads transmitted by the BBC Home Service between July 1958 and April 1964. This programme was produced by Charles Parker, written by Ewan MacColl and...

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Dialect recording in Whalton, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

25 Aug 1939

[Side 1] Joe and Billy talk briefly about cars; Joe outlines recent local cricket matches and personal contributions, compares cricket with football, mentions Billy's weekly trips to watch Newcastle U...

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Farm Cart Aquatint

[1970s]

Photograph of an aquatint illustration by William Pyne, of two farmworkers and a dog, in a farm cart drawn by a single horse. One of the workers appears to be drinking a mug of beer or cider. The aqua...

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Farm Cart Aquatint

[1970s]

Photograph of an aquatint illustration by William Pyne, of a view from the back of two farmworkers unloading a basket from a farm cart drawn by a single horse. An old woman stoops next to the cart. Th...

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