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Total number of records: 10

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communication10
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culture8
english language - dialects8
occupations5
education3
archive administration1
cooking1
fishing1
food1

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)10
Arnold, Martin3
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Studio Jaanus Limited3
Mason, Tom2
Chomsky, Noam (1928-)1
Halliday, Wilfrid Joseph1
Hampshire, Stuart (1914-2004)1
Heath, Christopher D1
Jones, Daniel (1881-1967)1

Archive Sub-sub-series

Easter Egg Survey

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-); Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1962-1963

This sub-subseries includes typed and photocopied questionnaires and covering letters, and ms. and typed responses, to the Folk Life Survey questionnaire on Easter Egg traditions. The survey appears t...

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Archive Sub-series

Fishing Questionnaire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1963-1968]

This subseries includes drafts and final copies of Stanley Ellis's fishing questionnaire, items referred to in its compilation and related papers.

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Archive File

Fishing Questionnaire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1966-1968

Ms. draft and typed copies of an agenda for a meeting to discuss the progress of the Fishing Questionnaire; typed copies of a covering letter sent out with the completed questionnaire to institutions ...

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Archive File

Atlas of Northern England

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1963-1964

The papers in this file relate to Stanley Ellis's contribution of dialectal data to the 'Atlas of Northern England', a venture undertaken by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in conjunction with t...

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Survey of English Dialects Fieldwork Contact Prints
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Survey of English Dialects Fieldwork Contact Prints

[1967]

Contact prints showing photographs taken as publicity for the launch of one of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) Basic Material volumes, possibly volume 3: The Southern Counties. The prints all sho...

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Survey of English Dialects Press Conference
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Survey of English Dialects Press Conference

Studio Jaanus Limited

31 October 1962

Stanley Ellis demonstrating a field recording at the press conference arranged on the publication of the first of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) Basic Material volumes (The Northern Counties, Pa...

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Survey of English Dialects Press Conference
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Survey of English Dialects Press Conference

Studio Jaanus Limited

31 October 1962

Harold Orton speaking at the press conference arranged for the publication of the first of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) Basic Material volumes (The Northern Counties, Part 1), at the Waldorf H...

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Survey of English Dialects Press Conference
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Survey of English Dialects Press Conference

Studio Jaanus Limited

31 October 1962

(From left to right) Wilfrid J. Halliday, Martin Arnold (of E. J. Arnold and Son Limited), Harold Orton and Stanley Ellis, at the press conference arranged for the publication of the first of the Surv...

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Stanley Ellis and Tom Mason

[1967]

Stanley Ellis, with tape recorder and microphone, mock-interviewing informant Mr. Tom Mason of Addingham Moorside (near Ilkley, West Yorkshire), outside Mr. Mason's home. This is one of a series of ph...

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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Heath, Christopher D

1967-1968

This tape contains three 1967 BBC Radio broadcasts by Stanley Ellis, from his 'Dialects in Britain' series; a radio interview with Noam Chomsky, entitled Language Generator [no date]; and Daniel Jones...

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