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Questionnaire Response Books: Miscellaneous Items
[ca. 1950]
This subseries consists of various forms of printed, blank (i.e. not completed in ms.) pages intended for recording the responses of informants to elements of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire.
Post-Fieldwork Processing of Response Books
[1960s]
In order to facilitate the preparation of the data collected in the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldwork response books for publication, editorial sheets were produced onto which responses from ...
East Midland Counties and East Anglia (Volume 3)
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1960s-1971]
This subseries consists of papers relating to the editing of fieldwork data collected in the East Midlands and East Anglia, in preparation for the publication of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) E...
Fieldworkers and Fieldwork
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1945-1965
This subseries includes ms. maps and notes recording the progress of fieldwork; published maps with Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities marked; fieldwork expenses books; and illustrations used...
The Living Dialect of Litton in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Battersby, Pauline
1963
A study of the dialect spoken by one man in Litton, in the old West Riding of Yorkshire, based on answers given to questions from the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire (Books I-IX), and a tape-recorded conver...
The Living Dialect of Whittle-le-Woods
Jones, Gordon Pryce
1963
A study of the dialect spoken by one man from Whittle-le-Woods in Lancashire, based on data collected in April 1962 using the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire and the tape recording of free conversation. A...
Folk Museums of the British Isles
Orton, W R
1968
This survey of twenty-five British folk museums comprises an introductory section which presents a definition, history and thoughts on the function of the folk museum, followed by individual descripti...
Booklists
1951-1980
These files contain bibliographies, catalogues and related items, collected by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivists and members of staff. The items were originally held in one...
The Dialect of Medomsley in the County of Durham
Walsh, N Gordon
1963
A study of the dialect spoken in Medomsley, County Durham, based on data collected during interviews with three informants in March, July and October 1962, using the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire to elici...
Questionnaire Version 3
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)
1949-1950
This sub-subseries includes typescript papers on the progress of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire and Survey of English Dialects (SED) plans; typescript drafts of version 3 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnai...
Survey of English Dialects Editorial Team
[Late 1960s/early 1970s]
Harold Orton in the Survey of English Dialects (SED) editorial room at the University of Leeds, with three members of the SED editorial team including (clockwise from Orton) Philip Tilling, an unident...
Finding Aids and Related Papers
1970-1983
This series contains items relating both to the organisation of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies' archive and library holdings, and aids for researchers wishing to access such holdings. ...