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culture5
folk music3
manners and customs2
persons2
play2
agriculture1
communities1
death1
english language - dialects1
folklore1

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Dyson, Ernest2
Dyson, Mina2
Gifford, Terry2
Russell, Ian2
Jones, Sydney1
Kenworthy, Valerie D1
Kokeritz, Helge (1902-)1
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)1
Sidney Jones1

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Children's Games and Rhymes

Kenworthy, Valerie D

1965

A collection of children's games and rhymes collected from boys and girls of the second form of Ossett Grammar School in West Yorkshire. The contributors were then resident in Ossett, Wakefield and Ho...

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SED Word Map: Stackyard
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SED Word Map: Stackyard

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map of the Northern Counties for SED question I.1.4, Stackyard, mapping responses Stack-Croft, Stack-Garth, Haggard and Stack-Yard.

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian; Gifford, Terry

December 1971

Ernest Dyson and his wife Mina Dyson, recorded in their home in Stannington, Sheffield. Discussion of local carols in Sheffield - names of carols and localities to which they refer; Stannington brass ...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Cradley, Herefordshire

12 Dec 1955

[Side 1] Sidney tells series of anecdotes, describes getting up early one morning to milk cows and returning home to realise it was 3am, recalls falling asleep as young lad while minding waggon and wa...

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The phonology of the Suffolk dialect : descriptive and historical

Kökeritz, Helge (1902-)

1932

Inaugural Dissertation--Uppsala.

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"Gypsy Funeral Customs"

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1969

This file contains two copies of Sanderson's paper, 'Gypsy Funeral Customs', offprinted from 'Folklore', volume 80 (Autumn 1969), pp. 181-187. The paper discusses the death and funeral customs practis...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian; Gifford, Terry

December 1971

Ernest Dyson and his wife Mina Dyson, recorded in their home in Stannington, Sheffield. Mina Dyson talks about composing the carols 'Stannington' (plays/sings first verse) and 'Bradfield'; names of ca...

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