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Total number of records: 487

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives479
Books and printed items8

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture464
Brotherton Collection11
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection8
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive7
Cookery Collection5

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
home487
occupations278
house furnishings269
culture194
food174
nature164
community life162
implements, utensils etc149
agriculture139
animals135

Count of Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom7
Genoa, Italy5
Nice, France3
Leeds, United Kingdom2
Croagnes, France1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)124
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)22
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)21
Scott, Mrs M. E.14
Horner, Mr M.12
Aston, Michael Geoffrey11
Barry, Michael V (1935-)11
Dunn, Ginette11
Malden, John11
Tammivaara, Irmeli10

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From 180012
From 1900475

Count of Latest date

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Up to 189911
Up to 1999476

Archive Sub-sub-series

Processing of Northern Counties Response Books

[1960s]

This sub-subseries contains editorial sheets created during the first phase of this post-fieldwork editing of the Northern Counties Basic Material volume, and thus includes collated Survey of English ...

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Processing of West Midland Counties Response Books

[1960s]

This sub-subseries contains editorial sheets created during the first phase of this post-fieldwork editing of the West Midlands Counties Basic Material volume, and thus includes collated Survey of Eng...

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Processing of East Midland Counties Response Books

[1960s]

This sub-subseries contains editorial sheets created during the first phase of this post-fieldwork editing of the East Midland Counties Basic Material volume, and thus includes collated Survey of Engl...

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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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Processing of Southern Counties Response Books

[1960s]

This sub-subseries contains editorial sheets created during the first phase of this post-fieldwork editing of the Southern Counties Basic Material volume, and thus includes collated Survey of English ...

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To Be and Other Grammar

[1960s]

This sub-subseries consists of grammatical data recorded in ms. phonetic script on specially printed editorial sheets, apparently as part of the post-fieldwork collation of Survey of English Dialects ...

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Lists of Forms

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960s]

This sub-subseries contains papers apparently compiled by Harold Orton in the process of examining and editing Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldwork data. The files each contain composite ms. wor...

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Composite Lists of Responses

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960s]

This sub-subseries consists of a run of typed alphabetical orthographic word lists recording the various word forms given in response to individual SED questions. This includes word lists for SED ques...

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Archive Series

B: Livelihood and Household Support

1951-1982

This series contains items largely relating to traditional occupations and industries, and home economics.

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Finance

1938-1969

Financial records and related correspondence for Maurice de Sausmarez, including invoices, paid cheques and counterfoils, bills, bank statements, details of income and expenses, income tax, property, ...

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Events

1868-1877

Printed materials related to musical and theatrical events held by the Novello Cowden Clarke family at their home, Villa Novello, in Genoa, Italy.

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Villa Quaglia

c. 1855

Plans and photographs of Villa Quaglia in Nice, now in France and then part of Italy. Vincent Novello retired there in 1849 and was joined by his daughter and son-in-law Mary and Charles Cowden Clarke...

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