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Total number of records: 1846

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Archives1841
Books and printed items3
Objects2

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1843
Brotherton Collection2
Herbert Read Collection2
Quaker Collection1
University Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
community life1846
culture1100
occupations894
english language - dialects621
nature571
education546
agriculture515
vehicles483
animals465
manners and customs449

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England30
Northumberland29
Embleton11
Lowick11
Allendale1
County Westmeath1
Earsdon1
Ellington1
Haltwhistle1
Hedden-On-The-Wall1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)236
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)177
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)99
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)90
Brunk, Wille54
Dunn, Ginette54
Fothergill, George William46
Sullivan, Keith Frederick44
Barry, Michael V (1935-)31
Wright, John T24

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Archive Sub-series

Correspondence

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1929-1975

Original incoming and copies of outgoing letters between Harold Orton and Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers, publishers, editors, university administrators and academics. These relate to O...

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British Broadcasting Corporation

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1948-1963

Harold Orton's (draft and final version) scripts used in his BBC radio broadcasts on the English language and dialect. These include interviews with Orton by other people, and single programmes and se...

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Press Conferences and Announcements

E. J. Arnold and Son Limited; University of Leeds

1962-1971

Items relating to the launch of Survey of English Dialects Basic Material volumes in London, Leeds and Birmingham.

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Correspondence

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1956-1983

This subseries comprises the correspondence of Stewart Sanderson during his appointment as Director of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). The correspondence largely concerns the c...

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Waterston Report (Fair Isle)

National Trust for Scotland

1955-1979

Typed copy of a confidential report prepared by the National Trust for Scotland on the status of the community of Fair Isle (7 December 1955) with a covering letter from the Trust (3 January 1956). Th...

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Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies Letterheads

[1965-1975]

Blank letterheads, bearing the Institute's name and that of the Director, Stewart Sanderson.

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Notice Board Items

[1970-1979]

This collection of paper notices, posters, leaflets and one photograph, originally mounted on a notice board in the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies, were gathered into one file marked Catal...

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Publicity

1971-1980

This series contains press releases and press cuttings relating to the grant given to 'The Linguistic Atlas of England' (LAE) project from the Leverhulme Trust; captions from a pre-publication display...

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Harold Orton Research Room Commemorative Sign

Winters, Nancy

June 10th 1980

This sign was produced for the opening on June 25th 1980 of a research room in the University of Leeds, commemorating the name of Harold Orton .

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Correspondence

Shippey, T A

1989-2003

Correspondence between Tom Shippey (Chairman of the School of English, University of Leeds) and Kurt Rydland, March 1989-May 1993, relating to Rydland's loan of and work on the Orton Corpus; correspon...

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University Open Day

May 12th 1980

This file contains a typed letter from Ian Rattee (Chairman of the Organising Group), sent to all Departmental Open Day Liaison Officers [possibly Tony Green for the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life...

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Publicity

1935-1971

The items in this series relate to the publicising of the published SED Basic Material volumes, through press conferences and media coverage, announcements by the publishers, E. J. Arnold, and the Uni...

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