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Total number of records: 88

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culture88
english language - dialects88
folk music71
community life35
persons30
occupations25
manners and customs22
play22
agriculture17
folk dancing15

Top 10: People and organisations

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Dunn, Ginette28
Baldwin, John R12
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)12
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)8
Sullivan, Keith Frederick7
Webb, Percy7
Poacher, Cyril (1910-1999)6
Green, Anthony E (1943-)5
Jimmy5
Holy Jim4

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Dialect recording in Ovingham, Northumberland

Hornsby, G

24 Nov 1938

[Side 1] Edward recites the story of the little mouse and the old tom cat in Ovingham dialect. [Side 2] Edward recites the story of the little mouse and the old tom cat in Ovingham dialect and supplie...

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Dialect recording in Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

30 Mar 1939

[Side 1] Samuel recites the story of the little mouse and the old tom cat in Sharperton dialect and supplies pronunciations of list of prompt words. [Side 2] Jimmy recites the story of the little mous...

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Grammar, etc.: Essex, Middlesex, and London

[1960s]

Collated data relating to grammar and usage collected from Survey of English Dialects (SED) responses for localities in Essex, Middlesex and London. This includes sets of individual data sheets for Gr...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Wharton, Colin S

1960-1961

Edited compilation of field recordings of songs sung by a number of informants at locations in North Yorkshire. The collector announces the name of the song and singer, where known, before each song. ...

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Grammar, etc.: Northamptonshire

[1960s]

Collated data relating to grammar and usage collected from Survey of English Dialects (SED) responses for localities in Northamptonshire. This includes sets of individual data sheets for Warmington, W...

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Grammar, etc.: Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire

[1960s]

Collated data relating to grammar and usage collected from Survey of English Dialects (SED) responses for localities in Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire. This includes sets of individual data sheets...

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Dialect recording in Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

24 Mar 1939

[Side 1] Dod supplies pronunciations of list of prompt words and recites numbers 1 to 20 and multiples of 10 to 100. [Side 2] Mrs. Robinson recites the story of the little mouse and the old tom cat in...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Harrop, Peter K

31 October 1979

Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play outside the Holly Bush pub, Little Leigh; [collector announcement]. [Tr. 1] Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play in the Maypole pub...

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Tape Recording Transcriptions

1956-1970

Typed transcriptions of Anglo-Manx ( Isle of Man) dialect ( Michael Barry, 1966) and East Yorkshire dialect ( John Widdowson, 1970). Also typed transcriptions of Survey of English Dialects (SED) infor...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Pattison, Susan; Murray, John

1974

Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soulcake play in the Wheatsheaf pub, Antrobus, on 2 November 1974. [Tr. 2] Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soulcake play in the Holly Bush pub, Little Leigh, on...

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Sound Recording, [Norfolk]

Summers, Keith

[1971]

Very poor quality copy of a recording of the singer and accordion player Bob Roberts, possibly made in Norwich at the Norwich Folk Festival. He sings (accompanied and unaccompanied), and also tells hu...

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Essex Response Books

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Berntsen, Howard N; Barry, Michael V (1935-); Wright, Peter

1952-1961

Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Essex to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were recorde...

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