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Total number of records: 130

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culture130
english language - dialects130
community life95
education73
occupations30
animals22
nature22
agriculture19
folk drama13
food12

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Embleton11
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Earsdon1
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Top 10: People and organisations

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)130
Ogg, M C13
Wright, Peter10
Pitt, Willie9
Alexander8
Lowrie, Alec8
Wakelin, Martyn F8
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)7
John Lyall5
Lyall, Jack5
Tom Cornell
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Tom Cornell

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1952-1953]

Survey of English Dialects informant, [Tom Cornell], in the garden of his home. Mr. Cornell's identity is uncertain as the labelling on the back of this photograph has been damaged and is now only par...

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Bill Hewison
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Bill Hewison

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1952]

Survey of English Dialects informant, Bill Hewison, standing in the doorway of his home in Bedale (North Yorkshire). The dating of this photograph is based on Stanley Ellis's SED fieldwork activity in...

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Charlie Brownsword
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Charlie Brownsword

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1952]

Survey of English Dialects informant, Charlie Brownsword, standing with his dog outside his home in Burton in Lonsdale (North Yorkshire). The dating of this photograph is based on Stanley Ellis's SED ...

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W. H. Thompson
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W. H. Thompson

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1952]

Survey of English Dialects informant, W. H. Thompson, standing in the doorway of his home in Melsonby (North Yorkshire). The dating of this photograph is based on Stanley Ellis's SED fieldwork activit...

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Willie Pitt
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Willie Pitt

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1953]

Survey of English Dialects informant, Willie Pitt, standing in the doorway of his home in Embleton (Northumberland). The dating of this photograph is based on Stanley Ellis's SED fieldwork activity in...

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Sound Recordings, County Durham

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Walsh, N Gordon

[1962]

This tape contains edited copies of two original fieldwork recordings made in Medomsley , with an announcement by Gordon Walsh. The originals are held on tape LAVC/SRE/A764r. See this tape record for ...

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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Heath, Christopher D

1967-1968

Male and female informants (A to E), recorded in their homes in Cannock giving answers to a questionnaire devised by the collector. This comprised seventy-one questions, and was used to elicit respons...

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Sound Recording

Open University

1979

Cassette 2 (sides 3 and 4) of a series of four tapes accompanying the Open University's Post-experience and Second Level Course (PE232), Language Development. This tape contains extracts of children's...

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Studies in the Linguistic Geography of Cornwall

Wakelin, Martyn F

1969

Ph.D. thesis based on field data recorded in 1958 by John Wright, for the Survey of English Dialects (SED); tape recordings made in the same seven SED localities by the collector and Stanley Ellis in ...

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Fishing Questionnaire Drafts and Related Papers

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1963-1968]

Ms. and typed drafts of Peter Wright's fishing questionnaire; a photocopy of Wright's questionnaire as it appeared in the 'Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society', with ms. annotations (copied)...

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Jimmy Marsden
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Jimmy Marsden

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1953]

Survey of English Dialects informant Jimmy Marsden with his ferrets, in the garden of his home in Thropton (Northumberland). The dating of this photograph is based on Stanley Ellis's SED fieldwork act...

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Jack Swailes
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Jack Swailes

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1952]

Survey of English Dialects informant, Jack Swailes, with his pig in the garden of his home in Pateley Bridge (North Yorkshire). The dating of this photograph is based on Stanley Ellis's SED fieldwork ...

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