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Total number of records: 35

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture33
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman2

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culture35
english language - dialects24
community life17
occupations10
language and languages9
literature and folklore9
communication8
education8
food8
play8

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Houck, Charles L4
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Green, Anthony E (1943-)2
Taylor, Alfred2
'Dusty'1
Baldwin, John R1
Bird, Elizabeth1
Brown, George1
Brown, I. M.1
Clark, Terence1

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From 20001

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Archive File

Boxes for Victorian Needlewomen

Swain, Margaret H

1965

This file contains an article extracted from 'Country Life' magazine (31 May 1965), pp. 1162 and 1165, on Victorian needlework boxes.

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Traditional Threats Review

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1981

This file contains a mounted photocopy of Stewart Sanderson's review of John Widdowson's 'If You Don't Be Good: Verbal Social Control in Newfoundland' (St. John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland,...

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Press cuttings : 2010

2010

Features Bauman's photographic exhibition and Prince of Asturias prize. [4 files].

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SED Word Map: Spring Onions
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SED Word Map: Spring Onions

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.7.16, Spring Onions, mapping the distribution of responses Scallions and Chibboles. The map is headed Linguistic Atlas of England.

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SED Word Map: Spring Onions
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SED Word Map: Spring Onions

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.7.16, Spring Onions, mapping the distribution of responses Young Onions and Shallots. The map is headed Linguistic Atlas of England.

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SED Word Map: Spring Onions
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SED Word Map: Spring Onions

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.7.16, Spring Onions, mapping the distribution of responses Chipples, Chibboles and Gibbles. The map is headed Linguistic Atlas of En...

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SED Word Map: Spring Onions
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SED Word Map: Spring Onions

[Early-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.7.16, Spring Onions, mapping the distribution of responses Spring Onions and Green Onions. The map is headed Linguistic Atlas of Eng...

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SED Phonological Map: Man/Mon Line
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SED Phonological Map: Man/Mon Line

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Wakelin, Martyn F; North, David J

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental phonological map which maps man/mon phonology using examples from responses to SED questions VIII.1.6 Man, VI.7.1 Hand, and IV.6.16 Gander. The map includes an isogloss of the man/mon lin...

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SED Word Map: Spring Onions
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SED Word Map: Spring Onions

[Mid 1960s-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question V.7.16, Spring Onions, showing the distribution of responses Scallions, and Chibboles. The map is completed in typescript, labelled Fig.22, and headed Li...

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Yorkshire Castles

Taylor, Alfred

1962

This file contains articles from Alfred Taylor's 'Round Yorkshire Castles' series, published in and extracted from the 'Yorkshire Evening Post'. The complete series ran from July - October (?) 1962, a...

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Yorkshire Abbeys

Taylor, Alfred

1963

This file contains articles from Alfred Taylor's 'Bygone Abbeys of Yorkshire'/ 'Abbeys and Priories of Yorkshire'/ 'Bygone Abbeys and Priories of Yorkshire' series, published in and extracted from the...

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[Lists of Forms]

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960s]

This file contains papers which record the different word forms collected at different locations, and in different counties, on a single sheet or set of sheets. The recordings all appear to have been ...

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