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Total number of records: 50

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manners and customs50
persons50
religion50
culture38
community life34
social life and customs27
occupations26
food21
holidays20
english language - dialects19

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Crook, Rosemary4
Dunn, Ginette4
Sullivan, Keith Frederick3
Tammivaara, Irmeli3
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)2
Neale, Brenda Ann2
Panheinen, Ossi2
Savage, Priscilla (1881-1881)2
Shaw, David H2
Voitl, Herbert2
Ruined Church
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Ruined Church

[1960s]

Ruins of a stone church and old churchyard, at an unidentified location.

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West Midlands Responses: Book VIII, Part 5

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VIII, Part 5: Church, Churchyard. Includes questions VIII.5.1 They go to church - VIII.5.7 Co...

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Aspects of the West Indian Culture and its Survival in an Urban English Environment - Manchester

Mulley, Ian

1977

M.A. study of West Indian culture in Manchester, based on limited fieldwork and a relatively small number of interviews (predominantly with children attending schools in Moss Side and Greenheys). Chap...

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Shirenewton (Monmouthshire)
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Shirenewton (Monmouthshire)

Voitl, Herbert

[1960s]

View of St. Thomas a Becket Church at Shirenewton (Monmouthshire). Survey of English Dialects (SED) locality 23/6.

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Swimbridge (Devon)
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Swimbridge (Devon)

Voitl, Herbert

[1960s]

View looking towards the village of Swimbridge (Devon), with the Church of St. James the Apostle and churchyard in the foreground. Survey of English Dialects (SED) locality 37/2.

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Neale, Brenda Ann

11 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; female, recorded in her parents' house in Leeds; describes her first meeting with her future husband; first date; buying drinks; meeting in-laws; presents; going out annivers...

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Woman and Marriage in Islam

Yedder, Abderahmane Muhammed

1975

Study submitted for the postgraduate Diploma in Folk Life Studies, with chapters on the definition of marriage in the tradition of Islam, marriage among Jahilia (the Arab before Islam), woman before a...

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Corpse Way: Grinton Church
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Corpse Way: Grinton Church

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

1966-1967

St. Andrew's Church and burial ground, Grinton ( Swaledale). This used to be the nearest consecrated ground to the village of Keld, which lies at the opposite end of Swaledale, approximately twelve mi...

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Corpse Way: Calvert Houses
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Corpse Way: Calvert Houses

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

1966-1967

Calvert Houses on the Corpse Way, about a mile from Ivelet bridge ( Swaledale). The Corpse Way ran between Keld and Grinton. Despite its position at the opposite end of Swaledale, twelve miles away, G...

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Dialect and Linguistic Pamphlets

1940-1974

This file contains 19 dialect- and linguistics-related pamphlets, offprints and reprints, deposited in the Dialect File. Many include inscriptions from the author to Harold Orton. Includes: - Der La...

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Sound Recordings, Stockton-on-Tees

Schrut, Judith Lynne

January 1977

Foodways: Brenda Conway, recorded in Thornaby, talks about making cheese and potato pie (learned from her mother); recording of informant making the dish in her kitchen; biographical details of the in...

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The Black Country Dialect: A Collection of Words, Phrases, and Stories

Starkey, H J

1953

This file comprises an ms. notebook containing a collection of words, phrases and dialect texts of the Black Country (i.e. South Staffordshire, North Worcestershire and North West Warwickshire), compi...

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