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community life31
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english language - dialects15
education14
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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)8
Barry, Michael V (1935-)5
Houck, Charles L4
Baldwin, John R2
Osgodby, Mr Harry2
Siporin, Rae Lee2
Tammivaara, Irmeli2
'Dusty'1
(Charlie)1
Agg, Albert1

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Spring and Summer Festivals

1963-1981

This file includes a colour section from the West Yorkshire Road Car Company calendar for 1963 on well-dressing in Tissington, Derbyshire, on Ascension Day; a section of a colour poster on the May Day...

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SED Fieldwork Notebook Page: Kynnersley
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SED Fieldwork Notebook Page: Kynnersley

Sykes, Donald Richard

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Page from an SED fieldwork notebook completed in ms. by fieldworker Donald R. Sykes. The page includes responses from informant Fred Smith of Kynnersley (Shropshire), recorded on 24 May 1956, to secti...

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SED Fieldwork Notebook Page: Haltwhistle
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SED Fieldwork Notebook Page: Haltwhistle

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Page from an SED fieldwork notebook completed in ms. by Stanley Ellis. The page includes responses from informant Jack Hepple of Haltwhistle (Northumberland), recorded on 11 March 1953, to sections II...

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Yorkshire Castles

Taylor, Alfred

1962

This file contains articles from Alfred Taylor's 'Round Yorkshire Castles' series, published in and extracted from the 'Yorkshire Evening Post'. The complete series ran from July - October (?) 1962, a...

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Survey of English Dialects Audio Transcriptions

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1955

Two copies of typed transcripts of thirteen gramophone record (marked as the 4th and 5th copies). Not linked to any specific audio files, but they clearly relate to informants and localities from the ...

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Games Without Special Equipment

1959-1973

This file contains items relating to games played by children which require no special equipment. This includes an ms. letter from Doris Hepworth to Tony Green on the game 'Old Roger is Dead', accompa...

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Sound Recordings, Salop and Staffordshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

[1966-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Salop locations 11Sa9-11, and Staffordshire 12St1-4. The original recordings were made in 1955 and 1966. The date when this ...

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Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 3

1960-1979

This file contains a photocopy of Vivienne Furze's paper on the Devonshire dialect, from an unidentified publication, pp. 20-21; an ms. orthographic and phonetic transcription of Purbeck marblers' dia...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Stigell, Ossi

1976

Mr. Dallyn of Halberton [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/689r] talks about his parents and grandparents; refers to a Club Walk and fair in ?; markets in Tiverton and Tiverton Junction. [Tr. 7] [Collect...

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Traditional Drama Conference Papers

1978

This file contains copies of papers delivered at the Traditional Drama one-day conference on aspects of current scholarship in traditional British plays, at the University of Sheffield, 21 October 197...

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Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire

Haldenby, Cynthia

August 1958

Harry Osgodby, recorded at South Ferriby ; relates a number of anecdotes concerning his working life (road work, harvesting); talks about working with horses, and describes a working day. [Tr. 7] Ma...

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Sound Recordings, England

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1950s/1960s]

Compilation of extracts from field recordings made as part of the Survey of English Dialects. These extracts were copied from gramophone disc recordings, with announcements by Stanley Ellis . A spea...

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