Search Special Collections
Results
Total number of records: 20
Top 10: Subject
Grammar, etc.: Suffolk
[1960s]
Collated data relating to grammar and usage collected from Survey of English Dialects (SED) responses for localities in Suffolk. This includes sets of individual data sheets for Tuddenham, Mendlesham,...
SED Word Map: Cowhouse
[1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed word map for SED question I.1.8, Cowhouse, mapping the distribution of the response Cowshed. The map is labelled Pl.12.9, 29.12/15, 35.1, 40.6, Cows' sheds 31.9.
Whitchurch (Herefordshire)
Voitl, Herbert
[1960s]
View of the main street going into Whitchurch (Herefordshire). Survey of English Dialects (SED) locality 15/6.
Essex, Middlesex and London Responses
[1960s]
This sub-subseries contains editorial sheets created during the first phase of this post-fieldwork editing of Survey of English Dialects (SED) responses collected in Essex, Middlesex and London. These...
Reports on Mumming from the Industrial West Riding and Nottinghamshire
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
1966
This file contains a typed paper by Tony Green giving information on mumming plays collected by himself and Mary Greenwald in West Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. This includes information collected fr...
Sky and Weather
[1960s-1970s]
This file contains items relating to weatherlore, including an ms. paper compiled by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivist Margaret Jackson, containing weatherlore, with bibliog...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Cooke, Jane A
8 Nov 1979 - 16 Nov 1979
Children recorded in the playground of Birdsedge First School, Birdsedge, on the 8 November 1979; talking about and demonstrating the games and associated rhymes known to them. They give examples of b...
The Linguistic Atlas of England: Reviews and Articles
1975-1980
This file contains newspaper cuttings, magazine extracts and photocopied articles relating to the Survey of English Dialects (SED) and the publication of 'The Linguistic Atlas of England' (LAE). The...
Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
1964-1966
Unedited Field Master tape. Male sings [4 unidentified, one a fragment]. [Tr. 6] Female sings [2 unidentified]. [Tr. 7] Singers [?recorded in a pub]. Male sings 'Don't Go Down the Mine Dad' [par...
Glossaries, Etc.
Hudleston, Nigel A
[1950s]
These files contain four undated typed papers, annotated in ms., containing dialect glossaries (mostly Yorkshire based) and data on Yorkshire folklife, and diagrams illustrating wagons and cottages. ...
Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wright, Peter
[1960-1980]
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) from Lancashire locations 5La1-5 and 5La8-10. The original Stanley Ellis recordings were made March to June 1954, and Peter Wrig...
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...