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Archive File

The Black Country Dialect: A Collection of Words, Phrases, and Stories

Starkey, H J

1953

This file comprises an ms. notebook containing a collection of words, phrases and dialect texts of the Black Country (i.e. South Staffordshire, North Worcestershire and North West Warwickshire), compi...

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Norske ættesogor

Liestøl, Knut (1881-1952)

1922

Includes bibliographical references. Contents: Fyreord.--Innleiding.--Robyggjelaget.--Skraddarsoga.--Nokre andre ættesogor.--Attersyn og resultat.--Tillegg: Varianter til Skraddarsoga.

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Sound Recordings, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

9 January 1980

Recorded in an Old People's Home in Treorchy ; Gladys Flinn (born Ystrad, Glamorgan) talks about family background, occupation of father; describes domestic routine - clothes washing, sleeping arrange...

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Sound Recordings, South Ayrshire

Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy

December 1973

[Collector announcement]; Mungo Munro , recorded at home in Dunure, talks about his fishing career, 1926-1971; deep sea fishing for herring; line fishing; women baiting lines (with mussels, also sand ...

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Íslendingasögur (v.1)

Pálmi Pálsson (1857-); Þórhallur Bjarnarson (1855-1926)

1899-1900

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Goðasögur og forneskjusögur

Pálmi Pálsson (1857-); Þórhallur Bjarnarson (1855-1926)

1899

Title from cover.

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Edward Clodd photographic materials

Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)

1896-1926

This series is a separate accrual. It comprises a photograph album which includes photographs of Clodd with his friends and family. These include the writers George Meredith and Thomas Hardy. The ...

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Amos Brown
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Amos Brown

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1953]

Survey of English Dialects informant, Amos Brown, standing in the doorway of his home in Cuxham (Oxfordshire). A horseshoe is nailed to the wall above the door. The dating of this photograph is based ...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

Feb 1953

[Side 1] Wilsey talks about his brother who was a gravedigger and a miner and describes different ideas about religion. [Side 2] Wilsey continues anecdote about telling local parson the story of Siddh...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Easingwold, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

15 Apr 1955

[Side 1] John tells anecdote about two brothers working on buildings at Ampleforth College who found buried 'pankin' [= earthenware pot] of spade-guineas, shared plunder and lived off 'brass' for year...

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Folk Traditions Among the Employees of the Railway Industry at Crewe

Latham, Jean

1964

A study of the way of life of people connected with the railway industry in Crewe, and the influence that the railway community had upon them. The collector gathered information from seven male inform...

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Sound Recordings, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Oswald Jacques, recorded in Grassington [?in 1963]; [recording takes place in a farm building]; Mr. Jacques describes the parts of a cow stall; talks about cows calving, premature/dead calves; luck st...

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