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culture10
english language - dialects9
community life7
occupations4
folk music3
folklore3
manners and customs3
archive administration2
associations, institutions, etc2
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Dunn, Ginette3
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)3
Lowman, Guy Sumner2
Lowman, Guy Sumner (1909-1941)2
Lowman, Guy Sumner, 1909-19412
Viereck, Wolfgang2
Belgium1
Belgium. Ministere De La Culture Francaise1
Commission Royale Belge De Folklore1
Commission Royale Belge De Folklore. Section Wallonne1

Archive File

A Historical and Descriptive Account of the Dialect of Golcar

Wood, D R

1983

A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Golcar, West Yorkshire, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with one local informant.

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SED Phonological Map: Hammer
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SED Phonological Map: Hammer

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Early-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed phonological map, completed in ms. and typescript, for SED question I.7.13, Hammer, mapping the distribution of responses where the initial H is retained, and where no H is pronou...

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Horses, Cattle and Draft Animals

1960-1973

This file contains items on livestock, in particular cattle and horses. The focus is largely on the general care and management of cattle and horses, folklore relating to their care, medicine, dialect...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

25 June 1974

Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], talks about his family; experience of World War One, war injuries, hospitalisation in Cambridge and Sidcup, writing poetry, fellow patients, inc...

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Flamskvävnader i Skåne : Mit deutscher Zusammenfassung

Fischer, Ernst (1890-1980)

[1962]

Bibliography: p. 331-335.

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Introduction to Lincolnshire Dialect. Survey of English Dialects recording in Eastoft, Lincolnshire

11 Jan-07 Feb 1952

[Side 1] Stanley introduces set of recordings documenting Lincolnshire Dialect, explains background to fieldwork in Lincolnshire, describes selection of informants and purpose of visit to make sound r...

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La saboterie dans le canton de Chimay

Tirions, Raymond; Belgium. Ministère de la culture française; Commission royale belge de folklore. Section Wallonne

[1967?]

Cover title. At head of cover: Minist{225{}ere de la Culture français.

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Lexikalische und grammatische Ergebnisse des Lowman-Survey von Mittel und Südengland (v.2)

Viereck, Wolfgang; Lowman, Guy Sumner (1909-1941)

1975

Preface and reproduction of Lowman's questionnaire in English. Bibliography: v. 1, p. 331-347. Includes index.

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Lexikalische und grammatische Ergebnisse des Lowman-Survey von Mittel und Südengland (v.1)

Viereck, Wolfgang; Lowman, Guy Sumner (1909-1941)

1975

Preface and reproduction of Lowman's questionnaire in English. Bibliography: v. 1, p. 331-347. Includes index.

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

25 June 1974

Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], talks about practising songs; the preservation of songs and the collector's tape recordings; old songs - music hall, folk; fishing - herring, gr...

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Spring and Summer Festivals

1963-1981

This file includes a colour section from the West Yorkshire Road Car Company calendar for 1963 on well-dressing in Tissington, Derbyshire, on Ascension Day; a section of a colour poster on the May Day...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

25 June 1974

Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], sings 'Young Sailor Cut Down in his Prime'; comments on the chorus and audience participation, thoughts he has when singing; comments on a comme...

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