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Total number of records: 18

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture6
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1
Quaker Collection1

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education18
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Laurie, Arthur Pillans (1861-1949)7
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2
Agar, Jack1
Bonham-Carter, Victor1
Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)1
Garton, J. A.1
Higginson, James Henry1
Leeming, Chris1
Liebman, Marcel1

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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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Young Leeds

1949

Printed publication titled 'Young Leeds: A Picture of Life in the City's Schools and Colleges' published by the Education Committee for Education Week, 1949. Includes a section on Leeds College of Art...

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Minute book and business papers of the Zion Old British School, Leeds, also known as the Zion Sunday School Fund

1949-1979

Contents: (1) Minute book, 1949-78; (2) Bank books, in account with Yorkshire [Penny] Bank, 1932-72 (2 vols.); (3) Loose-leaf file of annual statements of account, 1950-78; (4) File of correspondence,...

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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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Fieldworkers' Expense Books

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1949-1965

This file contains notebooks belonging to Harold Orton and Stanley Ellis, recording expenses incurred during fieldwork trips for the Survey of English Dialects (SED). Orton's expense books cover the...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

1981

[Collector announcement]; Jack Agar, recorded in the Territorial Army's Churchill Barracks in Leeds, on the 17 February 1981; gives biographical details; talks about the outbreak of World War Two; joi...

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Sound Recording, Devon

Read, John (1884-1963)

8 July 1958

[John Read announcement]; John Read, recorded at the home of his friend, Victor Bonham-Carter, in East Anstey, giving his recollections of country life and the dialect in south-eastern Somerset. Talks...

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