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Plough Stotts [Stots]
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Plough Stotts [Stots]

Ward, Olive

[1968-1969]

Copy of a photograph taken in 1937 of children (in costume and with a plough) participating in the Goathland Plough Stotts [Stots], Goathland (North Yorkshire). The teamster holds a whip.

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Hull [cartographic material]

Great Britain. Ordnance Survey

1955

"Fully revised 1951-52."

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The nail and clog-iron industries of Silsden in the West Riding

Moody, F W

1951

Reprinted from the Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, part LI, vol. IX, 1951.

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The Lincolnshire historian

Lincolnshire Local History Society

no.6 (autumn 1950)-no.7 (spring 1951)

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Archive File

Funding File 7

1951-1952

Typed memos regarding the publication of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, and Harold Orton’s ms. notes. 1 file. 1951-1952.

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Holmbridge, Yorkshire

Dyson, B Ronald

Sep 1951

[Side 1] Haigh recites poem composed by local author to commemorate Queen Victoria's visit to Leeds c.1859. [Side 2] Haigh recites poem composed by local author to commemorate Queen Victoria's visit ...

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Ethnologie Régionale ou Folklore

Erixon, Sigurd (1888-1968)

1951

Five photocopies of Sigurd Erixon's article, 'Ethnologie Régionale ou Folklore', from 'Laos', tome 1 (1951), pp. 9-19.

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Cumbria: Lake District life

v.24, no.10 (Jan. 1975)-v.28, no.1 (April 1978)

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Archive File

Fieldwork File 3

1951-1955

Correspondence between Peter Wright and Eugen Dieth, and Harold Orton and Dieth regarding the Questionnaire for the Survey of English Dialects. 1 file. 1951-1955.

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A Phonology of the Dialect of Rainow in the County Palatine of Chester

Dwerryhouse, Florence

1956

A study of the dialect spoken in Rainow, Cheshire, based on the written fieldwork recordings made by Peter Wright in 1951, for the Survey of English Dialects.

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Holmbridge, Yorkshire

Sep 1951

[Side 1] Jimmy and Haigh talk about shepherding, explain use of 'crutch' [= crook] calls and whistles, demonstrate several whistle commands. [Side 2] Jimmy and Haigh talk about breeding sheep-dogs, c...

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