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english language - dialects8
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Tammivaara, Irmeli3
Dunn, Ginette2
Haddock, Christopher2
Haddock, Elsie2
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Barnes, Malcolm1
Casbon, Herbert1
Chapman, George Fletcher1
Clark, Eva1
De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)1

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Thomson, Sydney

November 1972

The children of Royal Park Primary School, Headingley, Leeds, recorded on the 21 November 1972; talk about poems and writing stories; Christmas presents, trees, decorations; collector talks about Chri...

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Sound Recordings, New Zealand

Dunn, Ginette

[1973]

Male informant [as for tapes LAVC/SRE/A659r - A662r], recorded in New Zealand; talks about a poem he has written for the collector, and translates a Maori leavetaking. [Tr. 1] Copy recording of a gr...

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The passionate exiles : Madame de Staël and Madame Récamier

Levaillant, Maurice (1883-1961); Barnes, Malcolm; Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)

1958

"Bibliographical note": pages 347-350, includes index. "Translated from the French original, Une amitié amoureuse. © Hachette, Paris, 1956."--Title page verso.

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Picture post

De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)

1938-1957

v.1, no.6 (1938) - v.54, no.4 (1952); June 1, 1957 Wanting: v.1, nos.9,11,13; v.2, nos.1-4,10-11,13; v.3, no.1; v.4, no.8-13; v.5, no.1-5,7-8,10,12; v.8, no.4,11; v.14, no.1,6,9; v.15, no.10; v.17, no...

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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, 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, 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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Mumming: Play Texts, Etc.

Millington, Peter T

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains photocopied and typed papers, produced and collected by Peter Millington, on mumming and mummers' plays, with particular reference to Nottinghamshire. (In the following list, a coun...

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Conventional Expressions

1964-1979

This file contains a photocopy of Irene Teoh Brosnahan's paper, 'The Haptics of the English Handshake', from 'IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching', volume XVII, numb...

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Mumming: General

1962-1980

This file contains items generally related to the practice of mumming, and mumming plays. This includes a photocopy of Rosemary Meynell's paper, 'Come, Brave Bow Slash and his Men', from 'Derbyshire C...

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