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agriculture14
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english language - dialects8
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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)9
Wakelin, Martyn F5
Jacques, Oswald2
Lobb, Francis James2
Lobb, Mrs.2
Stevenson, Bill2
Willey, William Henry2
Wright, John T2
Anderson, Joe1
Battersby, Pauline1

Archive File

Folklore Survey (Goathland)

Green, R J

1963

A fieldwork notebook containing items of folklore collected during July 1963 in Goathland, North Yorkshire, from sixteen informants. For each informant, a name and address are given, and the item coll...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

March 1963

[Collector announcement]; John Galsworthy, recorded at home in Gwinear on the 28 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; talks o...

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Sound Recordings, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1963

Bill Stevenson, recorded in Carleton on the 1 February 1963; talks about his upbringing in Carleton; his father; pig keeping and killing for Christmas; diet; local school; Mischief Night and pranks de...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

March 1963

[Collector announcement]; Francis Lobb, recorded in St Ewe on the 29 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; discussion of left-...

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Sound Recordings, Devon and Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

March 1963

[Stanley Ellis announcement]; Samuel Snell, recorded on his farm in Swimbridge; talks about the bad winter of 1962/1963; farming sheep and beef bullocks; Devon Closewool [sheep breed]; discuss sheep f...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F; Wright, John T

1958-1963

[Collector announcement]; William Willey, recorded by Stanley Ellis in Mullion on the 30 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books];...

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Studies in Folk Life Exhibition

[1960s]

This file contains a photograph (LAVC/PHO/P2077) of part of a display board, showing the caption Studies in Folk Life: From Fieldwork to Publication and a selection of photographs and captions. It is ...

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Sound Recordings, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Oswald Jacques, recorded in Grassington [?in 1963]; [recording takes place in a farm building]; Mr. Jacques describes the parts of a cow stall; talks about cows calving, premature/dead calves; luck st...

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The Living Dialect of Litton in the West Riding of Yorkshire

Battersby, Pauline

1963

A study of the dialect spoken by one man in Litton, in the old West Riding of Yorkshire, based on answers given to questions from the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire (Books I-IX), and a tape-recorded conver...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F; Wright, John T

1958-1963

[Collector announcement]; Francis Lobb, recorded by Stanley Ellis in St Ewe on the 29 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; di...

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Sound Recordings, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wright, Peter

[1966-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Yorkshire locations 6Y21-24, 26-29. The majority of the original recordings were made by Stanley Ellis, in 1955, 1963, 1964 ...

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Scotland's inner man : a history of Scots food & cookery

MacClure, Victor (1887-1963)

1935

Bibliography: p. vii.

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