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The Living Dialect of White Coppice
Sutcliffe, L Jean
1964
A study of the dialect spoken in White Coppice in Lancashire, based on the answers of two informants to questions from the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, recorded over Easter and July 1963.
Food (MEAL): Salisbury, Harry and Rita
2022-2023
Audio and related item/s (photograph/transcript) relating to oral history interview conducted (2022-2023) at partner museum with named interviewee (see file title) as part of National Lottery Heritage...
SED Phonological Map: Birds
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed map of the East Midlands and East Anglia, completed in ms., for SED question IV.6.1, Birds, mapping vowel forms. The map is initialled C. G., and dated October 1965.
Transcript: Draycott, Paul
Blackmore, Pete
2022-2023
Transcript of oral history interview conducted with named interviewee (see item title) as part of National Lottery Heritage funded, "Dialect and Heritage" Project.
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Wilson, David L
22 April 1972
Emerson Bell and Donald Uchtman, recorded in Leeds, talking about American university and college campus folklore: freshmen's dormitories and spelling words by lit and unlit windows; no class unity at...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Little Bentley, Essex. Survey of English Dialects recording in East Mersea, Essex
Jun-Oct 1959
[Side 1] Mr Dunton recalls starting work aged 14 as 'stock-boy' [= farm worker helping to look after livestock] at Fordham Hall, describes long hours and gradual increase in wages to £7 before retiri...
Urban Folklore
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1964-1980
This file contains items on contemporary legends and folklore, and includes an ms. letter from A. Tozer (to Stewart Sanderson?) on modern folktales (16 December 1964), prompted by an article in 'The G...
Studies in the Linguistic Geography of Essex
Berntsen, Howard N
1962
M.A. thesis comprising three volumes. Volume One contains six chapters, the first being a description of the Essex sounds recorded in 1958, 1959 and 1961. Chapters Two to Six treat the development of ...
Worcestershire Response Books
Sykes, Donald Richard
1951-1955
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Worcestershire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses wer...
Sound Recording, Lancashire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1963
Male informant [two women also present, ?wife and ?daughter], recorded in White Coppice; talks about his work for the Ministry catching moles and other pests; breeding/handling ferrets; rook shooting ...
Sound Recordings, Essex
Berntsen, Howard N
1959-1961
Arthur Wapling, recorded in East Mersea; talks about farming methods; ploughing with horses - describes a stetch, dividing the field, (water) furrows and drainage; modern day farming - compares workin...