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Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

Miriam Cross, recorded at home in Prickwillow on 10 June 1974; talks about her childhood home in the village; parents (farmers); baking using a brick oven; jam making; pig killing; describes the Fen r...

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Archive File

Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 3

1960-1979

This file contains a photocopy of Vivienne Furze's paper on the Devonshire dialect, from an unidentified publication, pp. 20-21; an ms. orthographic and phonetic transcription of Purbeck marblers' dia...

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Archive Print part

Extracts from the black book of Warwick. To which are added Mr. Pegge's memoir on Guy Earl of Warwick, and Sir Thomas More's narrative of a religious frenzy at Coventry

More, Thomas Sir, Saint (1478-1535); Pegge, Samuel (1704-1796); Brown, Isabelle Kittson (1860-1928); Nichols, John (1745-1826); Carter, John (1748-1817)

MDCCLXXXIII [1783]

Final leaf is a singleton. "Price one shilling and six pence."--T.p. Half-title: Bibliotheca topographica Britannica. no. XVII. Containing I. Extracts from....II. Memoir on the story....III. Sir T...

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Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

[1967-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Lincolnshire locations 10L4-15. The original recordings were made in 1952, 1953, 1960 and 1967. The date when this copy tape...

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