Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 9 of 9 records

Total number of records: 9

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture9
english language - dialects9
home4
language and languages4
manners and customs4
occupations4
social life and customs4
community life3
energy industries3
folklore3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Crook, Rosemary2
Arnold, Jim1
Ellin, Thomas R1
Goodridge, Doris1
Jenkins, May1
Mckeown, Roy1
Moffat, Mary Jane1
Morris, Bob1
Stott, Prudence Ethel1
Thomas, Ceridwen1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 18001
From 19008

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 19998
Up to latest1

Archive File

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.

More details


Archive File

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...

More details


Archive File

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...

More details


Archive Item

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...

More details


Archive File

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...

More details


Archive Item

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...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Northumberland

Upton, Clive S

15 May 1974

[Collector announcement]; Mary Moffat, recorded at home in Earsdon; talks about doctors, a new Health Centre and home visits in the past; the village; Chapel; playing the organ; other musicians in the...

More details


Archive File

Sheffield Dialect Words

Ellin, Thomas R

1929-1934

Four notebooks of the address book variety, with A-Z thumb tabs down the right-hand side, containing collections of Sheffield dialect words. The first, bearing the words Where is it in gold lettering ...

More details


Archive Collection

Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture, (Survey of English Dialects, and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies)

University of Leeds

1836-2003

The Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture comprises the combined multiple media holdings of the archives of the Survey of English Dialects (ca. 1946-1978) directed by Harold Orton, and the University of...

More details