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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
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...
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.
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. ...