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Total number of records: 8

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
metal trade8
occupations8
culture7
agriculture5
community life5
english language - dialects5
manners and customs5
food4
home4
implements, utensils etc4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Barry, Michael V (1935-)2
Banks, William1
Bateman, Mr Alf1
Bill1
Broadhead, Albert1
Broadhead, Bernard1
Brothwell, William Richard1
Burnett, Bill1
Caitle, Fred1

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Bewdley Brass Foundry: A Description of its History and the Techniques Used There

Holloway, Charles

1980

A dissertation comprising five chapters. The first presents a history of H. J. Exley Limited, Bewdley brass founders, followed by a description of the foundry building (including a map and side and pl...

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Sheffield Dialect Words

Ellin, Thomas R

1929-1934

Four notebooks of the address book variety, with A-Z thumb tabs down the right-hand side, containing collections of Sheffield dialect words. The first, bearing the words Where is it in gold lettering ...

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Some Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Yorkshire Life: A Re-Examination of George Walker, The Costume of Yorkshire, 1814

Langhorne, Richard

1971

M.A. thesis which takes the activities, tools and equipment illustrated in George Walker's 'The Costume of Yorkshire' as the introduction for a study of such objects as they are represented in the mus...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

1971-1973

Ken White in conversation in his home in Sheffield , 24 October 1971. Talk of family and childhood, and four songs. [Tr. 1] Albert Broadhead and Bernard Broadhead recorded in one of their homes, in ...

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A Grammar of the Dialect of Addingham in the West Riding of Yorkshire

Moody, Frederick William

1950

A study of the dialect spoken in Addingham and its immediate neighbourhood in the late 1940s, based on fieldwork data collected from eight principal informants. An Introduction presents information on...

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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, Yorkshire, Isle of Man and Cheshire

Dyson, B Ronald; Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Barry, Michael V (1935-); Siporin, Rae Lee

[1965-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Yorkshire locations 6Y30-31, 33-34; Isle of Man 6aMan1-2; and Cheshire 7Ch1-2. The original recordings were made between 195...

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Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

[1967-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Lincolnshire locations 10L4-15. The original recordings were made in 1952, 1953, 1960 and 1967. The date when this copy tape...

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