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animals8
food8
manners and customs6

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)9
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Barry, Michael V (1935-)2
Bill2
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)2
Banks, William1
Bateman, Mr Alf1
Blyth, Robert (1883-)1
Bradley, Tom1
Brothwell, William Richard1

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Mr. Nottle with Corn Dolly

Wilton, Mrs

March 1968

Copy of a photograph of Mr. Nottle of St. Neot, Cornwall, holding a large, elaborate corn dolly made by him for the Harvest Festival on September 1953. Mounted on Photo File. With ms. note.

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Skeleton Network Map
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Skeleton Network Map

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1950s-1960s]

Printed map, completed in ms., showing the network of localities in which fieldwork was to be undertaken for the SED. The map is headed, The Skeleton Network, and shows Selected Localities (i.e. local...

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Remarks upon Field Work for an English Linguistic Atlas of England.

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1953

This file contains a photocopy of Harold Orton's article outlining how the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldwork was conducted, and the 3-4 day process undertaken by fieldworkers to elicit inform...

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SED Fieldwork Notebook Page: Haltwhistle
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SED Fieldwork Notebook Page: Haltwhistle

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Page from an SED fieldwork notebook completed in ms. by Stanley Ellis. The page includes responses from informant Jack Hepple of Haltwhistle (Northumberland), recorded on 11 March 1953, to sections II...

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SED Fieldwork Notebook Page: Ellenhall
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SED Fieldwork Notebook Page: Ellenhall

Gibson, Dr Peter H

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Page from an SED fieldwork notebook completed in ms. by fieldworker Peter H. Gibson. The page includes responses from informant Mr. Williams of Ellenhall (Staffordshire), recorded on 12 August [?1953]...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Ellington, Northumberland. Survey of English Dialects recording in Binfield Heath, Oxfordshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

Feb 1953

Side 1 is Ellington recording (12 Feb 1953). Side 2 is Binfield Heath recording (24 Feb 1953).[Side 1]Bob Levison describes working as farm worker aged 12 to 17, then working in mine for 40 years, com...

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Oxfordshire Response Books

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wright, Peter

1952-1953

Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Oxfordshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were r...

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A Phonological Study of Two Newcastle Idiolects

Skelton, Michael G

1976

M.A. research exercise analysing the speech habits of two informants from Newcastle upon Tyne, based on fieldwork carried out in December 1975 in Gosforth High School ( Gosforth), and on an audio reco...

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Sound Recordings, County Durham

Upton, Clive S

May 1974

[Collector announcement]; William Dodds, recorded at home in Ebchester on the 14 May 1974; examines and describes archaeological artefacts, excavated by him during the previous six years from the site...

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Studies in Yorkshire Dialects Based on Recordings of Thirteen Dialect Speakers in the West Riding

Melchers, Gunnel

1972

A study of Yorkshire dialects, based on field tape recordings made by Stanley Ellis and Peter Wright in 1952/1953 and 1963/1964, for the Survey of English Dialects. Fourteen recordings of free speech,...

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Sound Recordings, Essex

Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1967

Charlie Manning, recorded in High Easter; talks about driving a milk cart at the age of ten; driving waggons; ploughing; harvest time; community spirit; marking out a field for ploughing; hedging; cro...

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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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