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Total number of records: 20

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SubjectCount
culture20
english language - dialects20
community life12
occupations9
buildings8
nature8
agriculture6
manners and customs6
play6
animals5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Houck, Charles L4
Green, Anthony E (1943-)3
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Tammivaara, Irmeli2
'Dusty'1
Atkinson, Tom (1880-1880)1
Baldwin, John R1
Bill1
Birkett, Tom1
Bob1

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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,...

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SED Word Map: Cowhouse
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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.

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Whitchurch (Herefordshire)
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Whitchurch (Herefordshire)

Voitl, Herbert

[1960s]

View of the main street going into Whitchurch (Herefordshire). Survey of English Dialects (SED) locality 15/6.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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. ...

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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...

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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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