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Total number of records: 248

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives246
Books and printed items2

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture246
Brotherton Collection1
Herbert Read Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
education248
community life246
culture246
english language - dialects246
occupations73
folk music60
manners and customs53
agriculture48
food40
nature39

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England30
Northumberland29
Embleton11
Lowick11
Allendale1
County Westmeath1
Earsdon1
Ellington1
Haltwhistle1
Hedden-On-The-Wall1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)73
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)28
Wright, Peter15
Dunn, Ginette12
Barry, Michael V (1935-)10
Wright, John T9
Alexander8
Lowrie, Alec8
Pitt, Willie8
Sykes, Donald Richard8

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From 18002
From 1900246

Archive Print Item

Mulcaster's Elementarie

Mulcaster, Richard (1530?-1611); Campagnac, Ernest Trafford (1872-)

1925

With reproduction of original t.-p.: The First Part of The Elementaire Which Entreateth Chefelie of The right writing of our English tung, set furth by Richard Mvlcaster. [Printer's device] Imprinted ...

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SED Fieldworkers Map
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SED Fieldworkers Map

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1950s-1960s]

Printed map, completed in ms., showing the areas worked in by SED fieldworkers Stanley Ellis, Peter Wright, Donald Sykes, Peter Gibson and John T. Wright. At the stage the map was produced, fieldwork ...

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Skeleton Network Map
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Skeleton Network Map

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1950s-1960s]

Printed map, completed in ms., showing the network of localities in which fieldwork was to be undertaken for the SED. The map is headed, The Skeleton Network, and shows Selected Localities (i.e. local...

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Map of SED Localities Investigated
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Map of SED Localities Investigated

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Printed map, completed in ms., mapping SED localities investigated up to 30 November 1955. The map is headed English Dialect Survey in ms., and was created by Harold Orton.

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Map of SED Localities Investigated
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Map of SED Localities Investigated

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960s]

Printed map, completed in ms. and typescript, mapping SED localities investigated up to 12 August 1959. The map is headed English Dialect Survey in typescript, and is initialled H.O. ( Harold Orton) a...

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Archive Sub-sub-series

Illustrations

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1958-1965]

This sub-subseries contains the illustrative items Harold Orton used to accompany his lectures and talks. This includes compilation files of Questionnaire response book pages, locality and word maps, ...

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Questionnaire Version 1

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)

1946-1947

This sub-subseries includes typescript drafts of version 1 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire; correspondence with the Yorkshire Dialect Society; an ms. notebook and fieldwork response books belonging t...

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Questionnaire Version 2

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)

1948-1949

This sub-subseries includes typescript drafts of version 2 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire; and ms. fieldwork response books, completed by H. Collins, Harold Orton, and Peter Wright, recording the te...

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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...

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Archive File

Northumberland Response Books

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1953-1955

Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Northumberland to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses wer...

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Archive File

Yorkshire Localities

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1950s]

This file contains papers relating to the development of the Yorkshire Network of Localities. It includes an ms. list, 'Places Recorded by Ellis in Yorkshire'; an ms. map of Yorkshire with Yorkshire S...

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