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Runes
[ca. 1960s-1970s]
This file contains 14 photocopied plates showing diagrams, tables and maps of and relating to objects with runic inscriptions. These comprise figures of the Ruthwell Cross, the Bewcastle Cross, the Fr...
Willows at Ulleskelf
Aston, Michael Geoffrey
1964
Willows growing at Ulleskelf, near Tadcaster (North Yorkshire).
An English Devonian Dialect Glossary
Goodridge, Doris
[ ca. mid 20th century]
This file contains a glossary of the dialect of Devon, compiled from words collected by Doris Goodridge between 1916 and 1934. It also includes a short list of West-Devonian expressions.
Salmon Fishing in the Teign Estuary, South Devon
Brooks, A R
1966
A study of salmon fishing in the Teign Estuary in South Devon, with sections which describe the process of catching the fish and the equipment and techniques used, the net, the boat and the team of fi...
Yorkshire Dialect and North Country Songs
[ca. 1934-1960s]
This file contains a printed score and the text of J. Perkins' 'Pratty Flowers', or 'Holmfirth Anthem', no. 4 in the series 'Yorkshire Dialect Songs' (Leeds: Banks, ca. 1934); and illustrated greeting...
On the French Element in the English Regional Dialects
Stott, Prudence Ethel
[1970s]
Photocopied pages (69-83) from an M.A. (English Language) thesis, submitted to the University of Liverpool in 1934. These pages were copied from Chapter Four, and contain word lists grouped into distr...
Sound Recording, Glamorgan
Crook, Rosemary
22 February 1980
Ceridwen Thomas offers recollections of her childhood in early twentieth century Treorchy - World War One, housework, gardening; also, childbirth; parental discipline; miners' strikes; Rhondda cake; S...
Sound Recordings, Glamorgan
Crook, Rosemary
9 January 1980
Recorded in an Old People's Home in Treorchy ; Gladys Flinn (born Ystrad, Glamorgan) talks about family background, occupation of father; describes domestic routine - clothes washing, sleeping arrange...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Great Strickland, Westmorland
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Jul 1955
[Side 1] Bill describes his 'byre' [= cow-shed] and talks about measures to prevent premature birth of calves, cleaning muck out to 'midden' [= muck heap], recalls introduction of regular testing and ...
A Phonology of the Dialect of Greyabbey, County Down
McKeown, Roy
1971
A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Greyabbey in Northern Ireland, based on interviews with three local informants. An introduction to the village and its environs is followed by four ch...
Sound Recording, Glamorgan
Crook, Rosemary
10 April 1980
May Jenkins (born Treorchy) talks about her family origins, childhood recollections of domestic routines - washing, describes fireplace and oven, order of washing, ironing, starch, order of hanging wa...
Hops and Hop-Picking
[ca. late 1960s]
This file contains items collected for P. K. Kemp's undergraduate dissertation on migrant hop-pickers in Kent, submitted to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies in 1970. The includes a photo...