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Total number of records: 39

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture37
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman2

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culture39
english language - dialects30
community life17
occupations12
folk music10
nature10
persons10
buildings9
manners and customs9
animals8

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Italy1
Rome1

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Orton, Harold (1898-1975)5
Green, Anthony E (1943-)4
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Houck, Charles L3
Baldwin, John R2
William2
Wright, John T2
Wright, Peter2
'Dusty'1
Agg, Albert1

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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SED Phonological Map: Wh- Pronunciation
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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...

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SED Word Map: Come In! (To Pigs)
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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...

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SED Word Map: Without
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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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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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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