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culture11
english language - dialects11
language and languages11
well-being11
health10
manners and customs4
persons4
community life3
folklore3
food3

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Crook, Rosemary2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Hughes, Mr1
Jenkins, May1
Parry, David (1937-)1
Thomas, Ceridwen1
Williams, Bert1
Williamson, Anne1
SED Word Map: To Ache
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SED Word Map: To Ache

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Experimental printed word map of the Northern Counties, completed in typescript, for SED question VI.13.3, To Ache (of Belly), mapping responses Ache, be Sore, Wark and Warch. The map is labelled The ...

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SED Word Map: Cold
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SED Word Map: Cold

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question VI.13.18, Cold, mapping responses Cold, Starved and Starving. The map is headed Survey of English Dialects: N...

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SED Word Map: Boils
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SED Word Map: Boils

[Early-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question VI.11.6, Boils, mapping the distribution of responses Boils and Pushes. The map is headed LAE, and titled Distribution of Boils Pushes.

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SED Word Map: Off
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SED Word Map: Off

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Early-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question IX.2.13, Off (as in to fall off a horse), mapping the distribution of the response Off Of. The map is headed Linguistic Atlas of Engla...

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SED Word Map: Chaps
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SED Word Map: Chaps

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in typescript, for SED question VI.7.3, Chaps (on hands), mapping responses Cracks, Keens, Chaps, Hacks and Charks.

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SED Word Map (Yorkshire): Chaps
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SED Word Map (Yorkshire): Chaps

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Experimental printed word map of Yorkshire, completed in ms. and with SED localities numbered, for SED question VI.7.3, Chaps (on hands). The map shows the distribution of the responses Cracks, Kins, ...

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"Eli Frankham: A Study of a Modern British Gypsy"

Williamson, Anne

1977

A study of Gypsy Traveller folklore, based on interviews with Eli Frankham, from the Gypsy Traveller community, living in Norfolk. Eight chapters present a brief history of the Gypsy Travellers, a bio...

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Stanley Ellis: An Appreciation

[1982]

A collection of articles and essays, on sheets of duplicating paper with carbon beneath, written by colleagues to mark Stanley Ellis's retirement from the School of English. This includes an introduct...

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Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

22 February 1980

Ceridwen Thomas offers recollections of her childhood in early twentieth century Treorchy - World War One, housework, gardening; also, childbirth; parental discipline; miners' strikes; Rhondda cake; S...

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Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

10 April 1980

May Jenkins (born Treorchy) talks about her family origins, childhood recollections of domestic routines - washing, describes fireplace and oven, order of washing, ironing, starch, order of hanging wa...

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Sound Recordings, Powys

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

Bert Williams, recorded in Builth Wells [undated]; talks about the town as it was in his youth; describes various buildings, including a gatehouse, temperance houses, cattle market, brewery, Masonic H...

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