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Subject Classification for Folklife Material
Drury, Susan
19 June 1979
This copy of the folklife classification scheme, produced for Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies users, was produced by archivist Susan Drury and includes broad headings and subject subdivisio...
The Living Dialect of Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Courtney, Maureen R
1955
A study of the dialect spoken in Leeds, in the old West Riding of Yorkshire, based on interviews with people living in the Woodhouse, Hunslet and Adel districts of the city. Three chapters give a desc...
SED Questionnaire Page: The Mouth
[1960s-mid-1970s]
Page of the published SED Questionnaire (as published by the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society), with questions for VI.5, The Mouth.
Published Versions of the Questionnaire
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)
1952-1953
This sub-subseries includes ms. fieldwork response books completed by Harold Orton, recording the testing of version [5] of the Questionnaire in locations in Essex and Shropshire; the Dieth-Orton Ques...
Sound Recordings, Merseyside and West Yorkshire
Nalder, Peter Francis
[1960s]
Packie Byrne singing, playing the penny whistle and telling anecdotes in a Liverpool folk club. The tape also contains an interview, recorded at his home in Leeds, in which Packie Byrne relates biogra...
West Midlands Responses: Book IX, Part 2
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book IX, Part 2: Prepositions, Conjunctions. Includes questions IX.2.1 Further - IX.2.15 Out of it...
Museums
1966-1973
This file contains items relating to museums and related institutions, including Bryce Nelson's article on S. Dillon Ripley's plans for recreating a slum at the Smithsonian Institution, extracted from...