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Brooks, Margaret7
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Gibson, Dr Peter H6
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)4
Pilsbury, Tom3
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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Johnson, Myers2
Russell, Ian2

Archive File

Academic Correspondence File 32

1962-1963

Brook, G.L. Correspondence between Harold Orton and G.L. Brook regarding the latter’s English Dialects (London: Deutsch, 1963), and the appointment of [James] Milroy. 1 file. 1962-1963.

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Film Envelopes

Brooks, Margaret

c.1960-c.1980

Original envelopes and ms. contents lists for Margaret Brooks' negatives, relating to her thesis and found at PN575-579.

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Himley Response Book - 12St11
Archive Piece

Book II: Farming [Himley Response Book]

Gibson, Dr Peter H

8 Nov 1953 - 11 Nov 1953

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to farming.

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Himley Response Book - 12St11
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Book III: Animals [Himley Response Book]

Gibson, Dr Peter H

8 Nov 1953 - 11 Nov 1953

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to animals.

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Book IX: States, Actions, Relations [Himley Response Book]

Gibson, Dr Peter H

8 Nov 1953 - 11 Nov 1953

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to states, actions and relations.

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Archive Piece

Book I: The Farm [Himley Response Book]

Gibson, Dr Peter H

8 Nov 1953 - 11 Nov 1953

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to the farm. The answers of informant George Brooke recorded by fieldworker Peter Gibson in the International ...

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Dialect recording in Crossland Hill, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Sykes, Donald Richard

07 Jan 1954

[Side 1] Brook talks about work as quarryman, finding 'right' [= good] seam, stresses benefit of placement of crane to remove 'muck' without need for wagons, explains building of wall to hold 'muck' b...

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Student Folklore File III

1973

Personal folklore dossiers compiled by eleven students: - Charles Alobwede - Glynis Baguley - Loraine Barter - Farouk Bhayat - Francis Bond - Margaret Brooks - Julia Burton - Christopher Cart...

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SED Word Map: Rivulet
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SED Word Map: Rivulet

Wakelin, Martyn F; Dyson, B Ronald

[1960s]

Experimental printed word map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question IV.1.1, Rivulet, mapping responses Burn, Beck and Brook. The map was compiled by B. Ronald Dyson and Martyn W...

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SED Word Map: Rivulet
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SED Word Map: Rivulet

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms. in colour, for SED question IV.1.1, Rivulet, mapping the limits of responses Burn, Beck and Brook, and the responses Dike, Stre...

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Academic Correspondence File 76

1950-1971

Lanc. Dialect Soc. Papers relating to the Lancashire Dialect Society, including Harold Orton’s correspondence with G.L. Brook regarding the establishment of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life St...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire and Leicestershire

Paxton, N Sally

1976

Glen Brook recorded in conversation in his workshop in Healaugh, whilst working [on ?horseshoes]. Recorded 29 June 1976. [Tr. 1]

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