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Total number of records: 27

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culture27
english language - dialects27
community life15
folk music11
manners and customs8
nature8
occupations8
animals7
folk drama7
persons7

Top 10: People and organisations

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Green, Anthony E (1943-)4
Houck, Charles L4
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Harrop, Peter K3
Baldwin, John R2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2
Wright, Peter2
'Dusty'1
Adams, Ken1
Agg, Albert1
SED Questionnaire Page: Pigs and Calls to Animals
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SED Questionnaire Page: Pigs and Calls to Animals

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Page 17 of the SED Questionnaire as published by the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, with questions for III.9 Pig Anatomy, and III.10 Calls to Animals and Animal Cries.

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He Telles/Telleth and We Telles/Tellen/Telleth Maps
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He Telles/Telleth and We Telles/Tellen/Telleth Maps

[1950s-1960s]

Copy of two linguistic maps from an unidentified publication. Fig.9 shows the geographical boundaries of he telles/he telleth phonology. Fig.10 shows the geographical boundary of we telles/tellen/tell...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Harrop, Peter K

4 November 1978

Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play in the Spinner and Bergamot pub, Comberbach. [Gap/drop-out during Beelzebub's speech.] [Tr. 8] Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play...

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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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Lists of Forms

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960s]

This file contains papers which record the different word forms collected at different locations, and in different counties, on a single sheet or set of sheets. The recordings all appear to have been ...

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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, [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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Regional Maps

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Wright, Peter

1945-1946

This file contains a collection of printed and published maps which appear to have been used during the mapping of fieldwork localities for the Survey of English Dialects (SED). SED localities are hig...

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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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