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Total number of records: 38

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Archives33
Books and printed items5

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture34
Leeds Russian Archive4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
language and languages38
culture33
english language - dialects30
archive administration28
literature and folklore15
community life12
communication8
communities8
folklore6
manners and customs5

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People and organisationsCount
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)5
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)3
Sykes, Donald Richard2
Akhmanova, O S1
Akhmanova, O. S1
Bailey, Charles James N1
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Berntsen, Howard N1
Centre International De Dialectologie Generale1
Clinch, Angela Jane1

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Problemy obucheni︠i︡a inostrannym ︠i︡azykam : voprosy psikhologii i metodiki

Selʹg, R P; Sotter, I I; Estonia. Ministerstvo prosveshcheni︠i︡a

1978

At head of title: Ministerstvo prosveshcheni︠i︡a Ėstonskoĭ SSR. Nauchno-issledovatelʹskiĭ institut pedagogiki Ėstonskoĭ SSR.

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Slovo o slovakh : ocherki o ︠i︡azyke

Uspenskiĭ, Lev Vasilʹevich

1954

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Orbis : bulletin international de documentation linguistique

Centre international de dialectologie générale

t.1, no.1 (1952)-t.31, no.1/2 (1982) [1985].

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Om Avlyssning och Utskrivning av Dialekttexter i Fonogram: Några Erfarenheter och Problem

Hedblom, Folke (1908-)

1966

This file contains a typed paper by Folke Hedblom in Swedish, on listening to and transcribing dialect samples from phonographic sound recordings, [31] leaves. This includes sections on potential prob...

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Folktales: Miscellaneous 2

[1970-1973]

This file contains items relating to folklore and folktale, including folktales from Sub-Saharan Africa. This includes a photocopy of an ms. paper by Lindi Shembi Williams of the University of Botswan...

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Archive Series

Dialect File

[1933-1998]

This series contains items deposited in the Dialect File. In addition to papers on aspects of dialects and language, in particular English and United States English, the series includes glossaries of ...

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Indo-Germanic Languages Diagram
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Indo-Germanic Languages Diagram

[1950s-1960s]

Diagram from 'An Old English Grammar' (details unknown), showing the development of European languages from Indo-Germanic.

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Editor's Papers

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1970-1974

Includes Harold Orton's ms. notes; ms. and typescript drafts of introductory text, preliminaries and indexes; draft maps; notes on procedure; and papers relating to corrections and revisions of the WG...

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Folk Song: General

1959-1981

This file contains typed song texts for 'Ah'm an O'wd Age Penshoner' (provenance unknown); a photocopy of the text and tune for 'Charley of Armor', collected from Captain Shields by Geoff Wood, from a...

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Editor's Papers

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

[1968]-1978

This series comprises ms. and typescript editorial notes and other papers relating to editorial meetings; ms. and typescript drafts of texts; experimental and draft 'The Linguistic Atlas of England' (...

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