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Total number of records: 15

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occupations15
community life14
culture12
english language - dialects9
nature8
communication7
food7
manners and customs7
agriculture6
play6

Top 10: People and organisations

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Tammivaara, Irmeli3
Haddock, Christopher2
Haddock, Elsie2
Barker, Maud1
Bulmer, A Gillian1
Casbon, Herbert1
Chapman, George Fletcher1
Clark, Eva1
Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy1
Dunn, Ginette1
SED Publication Programme
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SED Publication Programme

[1960s]

Copy of part of page 22 from the SED Introduction, including items D (Linguistic Atlas of England) and E (transcriptions of audio samples) from the list in chapter 2.3 on the SED publication programme...

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SED Publication Programme
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SED Publication Programme

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Copy of part of page 22 from the SED Introduction, including items [B] (Basic Material volumes) and C (companion volumes of Incidental Material) from the list in chapter 2.3 on the SED publication pro...

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Cider-Making and Brewing

1962-1975

This file contains items relating to brewing beer and cider-making, including a photocopy of Eric Sample's article on small breweries in Derby, from an unidentified issue of 'Derbyshire Countryside' (...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

Herbert Powell, recorded in Sutton on the 17 June 1974 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A666r]; talks about horse-drawn cultivator/plough, and compares with modern machinery; describes harrows; hand sowi...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

June 1975

Ruby Ling, recorded at Snape Old Folks' Club, sings 'Wheel Your P'rambulator'; Bob Hart sings 'Why Shouldn't We Sing?'; all sing a hymn, 'Father, Hear the Prayer We Offer'. Recorded on 19 June 1975. [...

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Sound Recordings, Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Bulmer, A Gillian

[1974-1980]

Copy tape of fieldwork recordings. The original recordings were made in April 1974. The date when this copy tape was made is not known. [Collector announcement]; Harry Williams, recorded in Longtown...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Claude Gimbert, recorded in Sutton on the 21 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A675r]; talks about bell ringing techniques, types of bells, learning to ring, methods, c...

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Sound Recordings, South Ayrshire

Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy

December 1973

[Collector announcement]; Mungo Munro , recorded at home in Dunure, talks about his fishing career, 1926-1971; deep sea fishing for herring; line fishing; women baiting lines (with mussels, also sand ...

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Trams, Railways and Boats

1967-1973

This file contains items on forms of travel, including James Edward Holroyd's article on tramcars, extracted from 'Country Life' (7 December 1967), p. 1490; an ms. postcard from Jeremy Godwin to Stewa...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Christopher Haddock [ Albert Haddock's brother] and Elsie Haddock, recorded at Sutton Gault on the 22 July 1975; talk about wild mushrooms and mushroom picking; mushroom ketc...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Houck, Charles L

[Mid 1960s-1970s]

Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of...

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Needle Supports (Handknitting)
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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

Seven carved wooden foot preoccupation knitting needle supports, from the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. The supports are largely from Teesdale (Durham), and include the birch base o...

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