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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)177
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)9
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Pitt, Willie8
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Lyall, Jack5

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Fishing Questionnaire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1966-1968

Ms. draft and typed copies of an agenda for a meeting to discuss the progress of the Fishing Questionnaire; typed copies of a covering letter sent out with the completed questionnaire to institutions ...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Elsdon, Northumberland. Survey of English Dialects recording in Wark, Northumberland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

12 Feb 1953-21 Mar 1953

[Side 1] Simey recounts story of murder in 1791 of Elsdon shopkeeper, Margaret Crozier, and of subsequent pursuit and eventual hanging of culprit, William Winter: man, two women and 'cuddy' [= donkey]...

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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Heath, Christopher D

1967-1968

This tape contains three 1967 BBC Radio broadcasts by Stanley Ellis, from his 'Dialects in Britain' series; a radio interview with Noam Chomsky, entitled Language Generator [no date]; and Daniel Jones...

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Queensbury Interview Transcription

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1920s-1981

A typed transcript of side II of a gramophone disc recording of two female informants. Transcript is titled 'The Dialect of Queensbury' of recounts tales of a man called Jack Hodgson.

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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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Survey of English Dialects Fieldwork Contact Prints
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Survey of English Dialects Fieldwork Contact Prints

[1967]

Contact prints showing photographs taken as publicity for the launch of one of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) Basic Material volumes, possibly volume 3: The Southern Counties. The prints all sho...

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Survey of English Dialects Press Conference
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Survey of English Dialects Press Conference

Studio Jaanus Limited

31 October 1962

Stanley Ellis demonstrating a field recording at the press conference arranged on the publication of the first of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) Basic Material volumes (The Northern Counties, Pa...

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Survey of English Dialects Press Conference
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Survey of English Dialects Press Conference

Studio Jaanus Limited

31 October 1962

Harold Orton speaking at the press conference arranged for the publication of the first of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) Basic Material volumes (The Northern Counties, Part 1), at the Waldorf H...

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Survey of English Dialects Press Conference
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Survey of English Dialects Press Conference

Studio Jaanus Limited

31 October 1962

(From left to right) Wilfrid J. Halliday, Martin Arnold (of E. J. Arnold and Son Limited), Harold Orton and Stanley Ellis, at the press conference arranged for the publication of the first of the Surv...

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Stanley Ellis and Tom Mason

[1967]

Stanley Ellis, with tape recorder and microphone, mock-interviewing informant Mr. Tom Mason of Addingham Moorside (near Ilkley, West Yorkshire), outside Mr. Mason's home. This is one of a series of ph...

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Atlas of Northern England

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1963-1964

The papers in this file relate to Stanley Ellis's contribution of dialectal data to the 'Atlas of Northern England', a venture undertaken by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in conjunction with t...

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Archive Sub-series

Fishing Questionnaire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1963-1968]

This subseries includes drafts and final copies of Stanley Ellis's fishing questionnaire, items referred to in its compilation and related papers.

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