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english language - dialects4
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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
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Baldwin, John R1
Belfield, George1
Bellfield, Jim1
Blackburn, Margaret1
Bradbury, Valerie1
Brunk, Wille1
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Survey of English Dialects recording in Sutton on the Hill, Derbyshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

May 1956

[Side 1] Bill talks about cutting and 'pleaching' [= repairing] hedges, lists different bushes and explains hedging techniques, describes farm work incl. working with horses and cattle, ditching, 'tha...

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Weather Lore as Observed in Disley and Surrounding Districts

Bradbury, Valerie

1965

A study of weatherlore known to the inhabitants of Disley in Cheshire, based on fieldwork interviews, responses to a circular letter and a letter to the local press. The material collected, totalling ...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Berkshire

Baldwin, John R

1966-1969

Compilation of folk songs and conversation, selected from fieldwork recordings LAVC/SRE/A476r - A493r. The majority of the (male and female) singers were recorded in their own homes, singing unaccompa...

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Willow-Growing and Basket-Making in Mawdesley, Lancashire

Blackburn, Margaret

1978

M.A. study of the willow-growing and basket-making industry in Mawdesley, Lancashire. Volume One outlines the history and organisation of the industry, and details working conditions, the training of ...

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Twentieth Century Attitudes to Death

Rowley, Karen Jayne

1981

A study comprising four chapters. The first presents a brief outline of the development of attitudes to death throughout the ages leading up to the twentieth century. The second chapter concerns early...

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Cleveland Bay Horse Research

Brunk, Wille

1966-1968

Papers relating to Wille Brunk's research into the Cleveland Bay horse, undertaken during his assistant lectureship at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). Brunk intended to write a...

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Farming Past and Present: A Study Based in the Village of Terrington St. John and the Surrounding Areas of the Fens of North West Norfolk

Pearson, Margaret Frances

1977

A study of the farming community of Terrington St. John in Norfolk, based largely on fieldwork interviews with local people. The study comprises nine chapters. The first presents a profile of the vill...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for North Yorkshire locations 6Y3-8. The majority of the original recordings were made by Stanley Ellis, in 1952 and 1955. Harol...

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Sound Recordings, Yorkshire

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

[1966-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Yorkshire locations 6Y21-24, 26-29. The majority of the original recordings were made by Stanley Ellis, in 1955, 1963, 1964 ...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire

Siporin, Rae Lee

1965

An interview recorded in the farmhouse of William Eliot. Mr. Eliot talks about the village of Derwent before the building of the Howden, Derwent and Ladybower reservoirs; livestock; local farms; the m...

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