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Academic Correspondence File 106
1972
Simplified Spelling Soc. Correspondence between Harold Orton and Maurice Harrison, Honorary Treasurer of the Simplified Spelling Society, including Annual Accounts, and regarding his workload, interna...
An Account of the Dialect of Staithes in the North Riding of Yorkshire
Lawson, Mabel Stockwell
1949
M.A. thesis examining the dialect of Staithes (North Yorkshire), based on fieldwork data collected in 1947 from six informants, using Joseph Wright's 'English Dialect Grammar', and the Dieth-Orton Que...
Current Superstitions Television Script
Jay, Catharine
[1970s]
This file contains a transcript of television recordings made for a programme on contemporary popular superstitions and beliefs. The main part of the transcript is typed, and consists of eight rolls o...
The Role of the Public House in an Urban Environment
Hargreaves, Janet
1979
A study which examines the importance of public house visiting as a major leisure time activity, the pub as the centre of a community, and the customs and attitudes associated with the pub within an a...
Yorkshire Dialect Boundaries Map: Where Are You
Röhrer, Fritz
[1950s]
Ms. map of Yorkshire mapping the distribution of Northern England and Midland forms of Where Are You?. The map was compiled by Fritz Röhrer in 1950.
Sound Recording, Leicester
Edge, Christine
1965
Various informants talk of Cat Anna ( Leicester woman regarded as a witch), a secret tunnel used by Lady Jane Grey, Leicester Castle, witch burnings, divination (future husband, sex of unborn baby); C...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Marshside, Lancashire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
14 Apr 1954
[Side 1] Three fishermen in conversation about 1926 fisherman’s strike, discuss dispute and recall several clashes with police, incl. friend who 'clossemed' [= struck/hit] policeman. [Side 2] Three ...
An account of the dialect of Staithes in the North Riding of Yorkshire
Lawson, Mabel S
1949
Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Leeds (School of English), 1949.
Northumberland dialect research : first report
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1923?]
Offprint: Proceedings of Durham Philosophical Society, v. 8, pt. 2, (1923?)
The Calvert Manuscript
Calvert, George
[1960s-1970s]
Photocopy of a manuscript compiled by George Calvert of Kirkby Moorside, and completed by his son, Alfred Calvert, for Sir Martin Stapleton. The original manuscript (dated 1823) consists of a collecti...
Blacksmith Making a Horseshoe
Brunk Wille
September 1967
Informant Eric Snaith making a horseshoe, in his blacksmith's shop, Brick Yard House, Danby (North Yorkshire). The horseshoe is being shaped from a length of metal, using a hammer and anvil.