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Book V: The House and Housekeeping [Wibsey Response Book]
Archive Piece

Book V: The House and Housekeeping [Wibsey Response Book]

Wright, Peter

15 Feb 1952 - 20 Feb 1952

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to the house and housekeeping. The answers of informant Walter Gray recorded by fieldworker Peter Wright in th...

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Book IV: Nature [Wibsey Response Book]
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Book IV: Nature [Wibsey Response Book]

Wright, Peter

15 Feb 1952 - 20 Feb 1952

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to nature.

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Book VI: The Human Body [Wibsey Response Book]
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Book VI: The Human Body [Wibsey Response Book]

Wright, Peter

15 Feb 1952 - 20 Feb 1952

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to the human body. The answers of informant Walter Gray and Mark Clough recorded by fieldworker Peter Wright i...

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Wibsey Response Book - 6Y22
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Wibsey Response Book - 6Y22

Wright, Peter

15 Feb 1952 - 20 Feb 1952

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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Sound Recordings, London and Kent

Wetton, Anne Lindsey

July-August 1973

Compilation of field recordings made in Abbey Wood, Charlton, Plumstead and Swanley. Six informants sing a selection of popular love songs, including 'Dolly Gray', 'The Old Rustic Bridge', 'The Rose o...

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Sound Recording, Derbyshire

BBC

[1970-1979]

Local BBC Radio broadcast, entitled 'Owd Loscoe' [produced by ?Radio Nottingham, or ?Radio Derby]; [Announcement]; Billy Bellfield, recorded in Holbrook; talks about life at the end of the nineteenth ...

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H

1955

Bob King and his wife, recorded in Totternhoe;[Gap, 2 mins.]; Mr. King describes some [?local] caves; Sunday School treats; visitors to the area and locals serving tea to them; local people; the litan...

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