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community life5
culture4
archive administration2
buildings2
education2
english language - dialects2
entertainment events2
folk music2
human settlements2
manners and customs2

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Bird, Elizabeth1
Clark, Terence1
Dixon, Beverley Anne1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Johnston, Evelyn1
Playford, Averil H1

Archive File

A Study of the Living Dialects of Lincolnshire Based on an Investigation by Questionnaire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1952

M.A. thesis on the dialects of Lincolnshire, based on fieldwork carried out between June and December 1951 using versions four and five of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. The collector made initial fie...

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Archive File

Lowry's Town has Gone

Dixon, Beverley Anne

1980

A study of Salford, comprising six chapters. The introductory chapter includes quotations from the artist L. S. Lowry, and comments by others on his representation of people and place. The second chap...

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Archive File

Leicestershire Response Books

Playford, Averil H

1956

Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Leicestershire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses wer...

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Archive Sub-series

Village and Farm

1960-1973

This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items on village and farm life, and related topics. This includes W. E. Tate's paper, 'Parish Records and the English Village Community', extracted f...

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Archive Item

Sound Recordings, North East England

Bird, Elizabeth

November 1973

[Collector announcement]; Evelyn Johnston talks about the Black Watch Jazz Band of Bedlington (Northumberland) during the period 1927-1928; boy and girl members; uniform; instruments; batons; mascot; ...

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