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Orton, Harold (1898-1975)4
Wright, Peter3
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Jones, William Eric2
Read, John (1884-1963)2
Agar, Jack1
Bond, Francis Keith1
Bond, Kathy1
Bonham-Carter, Victor1
Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)1

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Archive Sub-sub-series

Questionnaire Version 2

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)

1948-1949

This sub-subseries includes typescript drafts of version 2 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire; and ms. fieldwork response books, completed by H. Collins, Harold Orton, and Peter Wright, recording the te...

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Fiddler

[1968-1969]

Copy of a photograph taken in 1949, of the fiddler from the Goathland Sword Dance Team, playing and in costume, Goathland (North Yorkshire).

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Sword Dance Team
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Sword Dance Team

[1968-1969]

Copy of a photograph taken in 1949, of the Goathland Sword Dance Teamperforming in Goathland (North Yorkshire). The team appears to be largely made up of boys rather than adult men. The dancers are sp...

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A Survey of the Dialect Spoken at the Present Day in and Around the Village of Grindleton in the West Riding of Yorkshire

Jones, William Eric

1949

A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Grindleton in the old West Riding of Yorkshire. An introduction to the village is followed by five chapters which give a descriptive account of the so...

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An Account of the Phonology of the Dialect of Gosforth in the County of Cumberland

Young, Nell

1950

A study of the dialect spoken in Gosforth, in the old county of Cumberland, based on fieldwork undertaken in June and December 1949. An introduction to the village is followed by chapters which pres...

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Some Dialect Isoglosses in England

Finners, N

1958

This file contains a typed paper, with ms. annotations, presented to the American Dialect Society, with accompanying maps. The paper uses survey data from the United States and Great Britain to invest...

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An Account of the Phonology of the Dialect of High Coniscliffe

Syddall, Denis

1950

A study of the dialect spoken in High Coniscliffe in County Durham, based on fieldwork interviews conducted between June and September 1949 with people living in the village.

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Kathy Bond [collector's mother] relates her recollections of living in the Huyton area of Liverpool during World War Two - air raids, prisoners-of-war, transit camps, VJ Day celebrations, rationing, m...

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Phonology of the Dialect of Fleetwood, Lancashire

Wright, Peter

1949

A study of the dialect spoken in Fleetwood in Lancashire. A number of leaves have been removed from this piece of work, and as a consequence the current item starts at Chapter Three, on the developmen...

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Microfilm of Postgraduate Thesis on the Dialect of Broughton in Furness

Micro Methods Limited

[1970s]

A copy of Mabel Round's M.A. thesis (Leeds, 1949), 'The Living Dialect of Broughton in Furness, in the County of Lancashire'. The thesis is based on data collected in Broughton in Furness (Lancashire)...

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Animals and Birds

1949-1981

This file contains items on folklore and terminology associated with animals and birds. This includes a photocopy of Tom Hey's article on Yorkshire names for wild birds, from the 'Dalesman', volume 40...

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Sound Recording, St. Andrews

Read, John (1884-1963)

December 1957

[Collector announcement]; Professor John Read, reading extracts from his book, 'Farmer's Joy' (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1949). The first is from chapter nineteen, The Camel Play Actors, in which he gives an...

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