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Archive Item

Sound Recordings, England

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1950s/1960s]

Compilation of extracts from field recordings made as part of the Survey of English Dialects. These extracts were copied from gramophone disc recordings, with announcements by Stanley Ellis . A spea...

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Archive Print part

Tvvo proclamations by the King. His Maiesties proclamation for the more free passage of all his loving subjects and the free carriage and conveyance of their horses, provisions, or other goods from any one place or part to another within his kingdom of England and the dominions thereof

Charles king of England (1600-1649); Great Britain. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)

1642

Originally published: York : 1642. First proclamation dated "the eighteenth day of June", (p.2); second proclamation dated "the twentieth day of June", (p.6).

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Sound Recordings, Dorset

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Studley of Broadwindsor talks about the history of his family's farm; type of farming; livestock; recollections of farm work when a child; harvest time and the custom of making sweet hay; haymakin...

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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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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1974

[Collector announcement]; Bertram Bridgement, recorded in Manea on the 3 July 1974; talks about farming and farm jobs pre-mechanisation; dyke/drain digging tools; job as a horseman; showing horses (Sh...

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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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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, 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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Archive Sub-collection

Anthony HEYWOOD Collection

1908-2005

[BOX 1] A V Strel'tsov "Parovozy-pamiatniki" (Moscow, 1987) (set of 16 picture postcards) /1/. Bengt Sjölin "Konstruktion, Tillverkning och Transport av de hos Nydqvist & Holm A-B Beställda Ryska Lo...

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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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