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Total number of records: 58

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community life58
culture49
english language - dialects35
folk music34
occupations30
food24
agriculture23
education22
manners and customs21
play20

Top 10: People and organisations

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Dunn, Ginette19
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)9
Webb, Percy6
Baldwin, John R5
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)4
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)4
'Dusty'3
Dawes, George3
Pardon, Walter (1914-1996)3

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Dialect recording in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland

23 Feb 1939

[Side 1] Conversation between coxswain Brown and Hunter (unplayable by current technological means). [Side 2] Conversation between Janet and Maggie about crossing to Holy Island; Hunter recites the st...

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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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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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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

June 1975

Singing at the Gardener's Arms Folk Club, Ipswich, on the 19 June 1975. Bob Hart sings 'White Wings' and 'What a Funny Little Place to Have One'; Dave Burland sings 'Bitter Withy' , 'Banks of the Bann...

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Dialect recording in Morebattle, Roxburghshire

Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956); Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

23 Aug 1939

[Side 1] Mr Currie tells an anecdote about a minister seeking selection for the local kirk, general discussion of local flower show, leeks, barley soups, scabious. [Side 2] Mr Currie recites the story...

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Uffington Mummers' Play

1972

This file contains items relating to the Mummers' play performed at Uffington (Oxfordshire). This includes a photocopy of typed text of the songs performed, and a transcription of the words of the 'Uf...

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Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

10 Mar 1939

[Side 1] Florrie recites the story of the little mouse and the old tom cat in Rothbury dialect; Florrie, Billy and Charlie talk about fishing (first few seconds inaudible). [Side 2] Billy and Charlie ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ashton, John

[1974/1975]

Harry Slack, recorded at home in Leeds, sings 'Little Mother of Mine', 'Bonny Irish Boy'; singing style (adornment); sings 'The Shannon Golden'; learning songs; sings 'The Woman from Wexford'; the sto...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1975

George Bennett[?recorded at home in Snape in 1975]. His ?wife/?sister is also present. Sings 'Little Jimmy Tiddler', ''Mid Shot and Shell' [words indistinct], 'I Have a Saviour'; information on 'Littl...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire

Baldwin, John R

1969

Mrs. I. M. Brown and Mrs. Cotmore [?sisters], recorded in Oxford in 1969. Recitation of the words to 'I had a Little Donkey', and the monologues 'Sally and Her Sweetheart', and 'Little Boy and the Err...

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Northamptonshire Response Books

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1957

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

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Cambridgeshire Response Books

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1958

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

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