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West Midlands Responses: Book IV, Part 12
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book IV, Part 12: Parts of a Tree. Includes questions IV.12.1 Root - IV.12.5 To Lop.
Grammar, etc.: Worcestershire
[1960s]
Collated data relating to grammar and usage collected from Survey of English Dialects (SED) responses for localities in Worcestershire. This includes sets of individual data sheets for Romsley, Hartle...
West Midlands Responses: Book VII, Part 8
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VII, Part 8: Measures. Includes questions VII.8.1 Quart - VII.8.10 Handful/Double handful/Arm...
May, 2008, Rome
May 2008
Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of of a lecture titled “The Cultural Scenario: Individualism and the End of the Future” on 8 May 2008 as part of a conference titled "Guardians ...
SED Phonological Map: Wh- Pronunciation
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms. in colour, mapping the pronunciation of Wh- in responses to SED questions V.5.8 Whey, I.5.12 Whip and V.10.7 White. The...
SED Word Map: Come In! (To Pigs)
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed word map, completed in typescript, for SED question III.10.1(c), Come In! (to Pigs), mapping the distribution of responses Giss, Pig and Tig. The map is headed Linguistic Atlas of...
SED Word Map: Without
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed word map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question V.8.10a, Without (i.e. in reference to having no sugar in tea), mapping responses Without, Athout, Adout, Bid...
Sound Recordings, Cheshire
Harrop, Peter K
4 November 1978
Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play in the Spinner and Bergamot pub, Comberbach. [Gap/drop-out during Beelzebub's speech.] [Tr. 8] Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play...
Children's Stories
Thomson, Sydney
1972
This file contains items relating to a survey of children's stories, both written and oral, undertaken by Sydney Thomson at two primary schools in West Leeds in 1972. This includes a typed outline of ...
Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian
June 1971
Charles Green singing at home in Dungworth, near Sheffield. Recorded 10 June 1971. [Tr. 8]. This session concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A123r (AC048, Tr. 4). Billy Perkins singing and talking at home in...
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 ...
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...