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West Midlands Responses: Book V, Part 6
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book V, Part 6: Baking. Includes questions V.6.1 Flour - V.6.12 Sad (of Bread or Pastry).
Grammar, etc.: Gloucestershire
[1960s]
Collated data relating to grammar and usage collected from Survey of English Dialects (SED) responses for localities in Gloucestershire. This includes sets of individual data sheets for Deerhurst, Gre...
"Lapps on Skis" Watercolour
Campbell, John Francis (1822-1885)
[1960s]
Slide reproduction of John Francis Campbell's watercolour painting, 'Lapps on Skis', 1850. The painting depicts a scene at Kvikkjok (Sweden), with a man in winter dress including snow shoes (Skibaner)...
Narrow Phonetic Transcription on the Computer: Taking the Phone off the Hook
Keil, Gerald C
1974
This file contains a photocopy of Gerald Keil's typed paper (17, [6] pp.) on the IMPAC project to index, map and analyse data collected for the Survey of English Dialects (SED), using a computer. The ...
Derbyshire Response Books
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1955-1956
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Derbyshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were re...
Conistone Survey Contact Prints: D
July 1971
Contact prints of photographs taken during a Survey of Vernacular Architecture around Conistone ( Wharfedale), undertaken by students on the Museums Association Diploma Curatorial Course in Folk Life ...
Lists of Forms
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1960s]
This file contains papers which record the different word forms collected at different locations, and in different counties, on a single sheet or set of sheets. The recordings all appear to have been ...
Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 4
[1933-1978]
This file contains a paper napkin printed with pictures and numbers with words in Welsh and English (undated); Harold Orton's review of Eugen Dieth's 'A Grammar of the Buchan Dialect (Aberdeenshire), ...
Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
1964-1966
Unedited Field Master tape. Male sings [4 unidentified, one a fragment]. [Tr. 6] Female sings [2 unidentified]. [Tr. 7] Singers [?recorded in a pub]. Male sings 'Don't Go Down the Mine Dad' [par...
Correspondence : 1987-1990
c.1972-c.1990
Folders of correspondence mainly covering period c.1987-c.1990 in English unless otherwise specified. Some include copies of ZB’s letters. Files include correspondence from/re: 1) Various inc Pol...
Conferences and Folk Events
1974-1981
This file contains ephemera used to promote and provide information on conferences and other events related to folklore and folklife. This includes a leaflet for the 2nd Yorkshire Folk and Craft Fayre...
Sheffield Dialect Words
Ellin, Thomas R
1929-1934
Four notebooks of the address book variety, with A-Z thumb tabs down the right-hand side, containing collections of Sheffield dialect words. The first, bearing the words Where is it in gold lettering ...