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Total number of records: 546

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture546
University Archive1

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community life546
education546
culture359
english language - dialects246
occupations174
manners and customs132
agriculture126
nature125
food111
animals108

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)102
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)38
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)23
Barry, Michael V (1935-)22
Dunn, Ginette17
Wright, Peter15
Tammivaara, Irmeli13
Wright, John T13
University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies11
Brunk, Wille10

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Archive Sub-collection

Film

[1960-1976]

Film and stills on traditional ropemaking and clog-making from Sam Hanna's series of films on traditional English crafts; film taken during a trip by members of staff of the Institute of Dialect and F...

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Institute Staff Papers

University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies

1952-1983

This subfonds contains papers created and collected by members of staff at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS), and includes correspondence; papers relating to the research interest...

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Student Research Papers

1942-1992

The items in this subfonds present original research in Folklore and Folklife Studies, English Language and Dialectology. The subject areas covered include custom and belief, traditional narratives, t...

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Non-Student Research Papers

[1880] - 1992

This subfonds contains provenanced and unprovenanced papers, created and collected by students, academics and other researchers and informants from outside the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studi...

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Sound Recordings

1920s-1981

This subfonds contains both original and master copy fieldwork recordings, made primarily in England by fieldworkers collecting dialect data for the country-wide English Dialect Survey (later publishe...

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Fieldwork

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1945-1974

Correspondence between Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth regarding linguistic research and surveys, their collaboration on a linguistic atlas of England and the development of an English dialect questionna...

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General Administration

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1948-1968

This sub-subseries contains documents relating both to general University administration, and to Harold Orton's day-to-day co-ordination of the Survey of English Dialects (SED). This includes receipts...

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Academic-Related

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1935-1975

Documents in this sub-subseries relate to Harold Orton's lecture tours and visits in Europe and North America, organised through two particular exchange schemes, and also to temporary (visiting profes...

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General Dialect Related Enquiries

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1929-1971

The larger part of this sub-subseries comprises letters sent to Harold Orton from members of the public, in response to newspaper articles and radio broadcasts on the Survey of English Dialects (SED)....

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Survey of English Dialects

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1936-1966

The papers contained within this sub-subseries describe the genesis and development of the Survey of English Dialects (SED), Harold Orton's collaboration with Eugen Dieth, their methodology, fieldwork...

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Oxford University Summer School

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1971-1972

Correspondence and hand-outs relating to Harold Orton's two lectures on the English Dialect Survey, given as part of a Summer School at Oxford University.

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Trondheim

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1967]

Harold Orton's ms. notes, written on 7" x 5" index cards numbered 1-14, for his lecture 'English Speech - Present Trends', given in Trondheimin August 1967. It is not known when he wrote these notes. ...

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