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Raven McDavid Articles
McDavid, Raven Ioor (1911-1984)
[1960-1981]
Originally housed in a single folder labelled Complete Set of Xeroxes of Raven McDavid's Articles, these files contain photocopies of printed, typed and draft articles and papers by McDavid, mainly re...
Folklife Papers
Bringéus, Nils-Arvid
[1960-1972]
This file contains a typed paper, 'Svensk Folklivsforskning : Några Utvecklingslinjer' [undated - 1960s], on developments in Folk Life Studies in Sweden; and a typed paper, 'Gåsskötsel: Ett Diskuss...
Proposals for the Computerisation of the Survey of English Dialects
Keil, Gerald C
1967-1976
This file contains papers relating to Keil's proposals for the computerisation of Survey of English Dialects (SED) data, to provide a concordance and index to all data; to provide a means for the swif...
Riddles: General
[ca. 1967-1978]
This file contains a typed copy, with ms. annotations, of Peter Nalder's paper commenting on the extension and modification of the Archer Taylor riddle index, 'English Riddles from Oral Tradition', wi...
Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 4
[1933-1978]
This file contains a paper napkin printed with pictures and numbers with words in Welsh and English (undated); Harold Orton's review of Eugen Dieth's 'A Grammar of the Buchan Dialect (Aberdeenshire), ...
Linguistic Papers
Bailey, Charles James N
1967-1968
This file contains linguistic papers by Charles James N. Bailey. These include the typed paper, 'Summary of an Idea Concerning Lexical Exceptions to the Regular Ordering of the Phonological Rules of a...
Folk Dance: General
[1971-1979]
This file contains a photocopy of the English Folk Dance and Song Society's leaflet number 15, 'Folk Dance Articles in the Journal of the English Folk Dance Society, Journal of the English Folk Dance ...
An Account of the Phonology of the Living Dialect of Warley in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Handscombe, Brenda
1961
A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Warley Town, in the old West Riding of Yorkshire. Data was collected from five local informants, interviewed over three periods in 1959 and 1960. An i...
Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 3
1960-1979
This file contains a photocopy of Vivienne Furze's paper on the Devonshire dialect, from an unidentified publication, pp. 20-21; an ms. orthographic and phonetic transcription of Purbeck marblers' dia...
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...
Folklife Research in the Jewish Community
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1963-1974
This file includes copies of Stewart Sanderson's 'Proposals for Folk Life Research Amongst the Jewish Community in Leeds', (February 1963); correspondence with Dr. Zvi Sofer of the University of Gött...
Museums
1966-1973
This file contains items relating to museums and related institutions, including Bryce Nelson's article on S. Dillon Ripley's plans for recreating a slum at the Smithsonian Institution, extracted from...