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Total number of records: 14

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well-being14
culture11
community life9
health9
occupations9
english language - dialects7
manners and customs6
nature6
folklore5
food5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)7
Lenihan, J M A2
Bagnall, Harry1
Bags1
Barker, Mrs Sarah Ann1
Bob1
Boss1
Brown, Neil1
Casbon, Herbert1
Chapman, George Fletcher1

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1975

Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common on the 27 June 1975; sings 'The Boy Truly Regrets'; [gap]; 'I Wonder Who's Kissing You Now (Because I Love You)'; [ 'Fiddler's Green']; 'Flanagan's Band...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Christopher Haddock [ Albert Haddock's brother] and Elsie Haddock, recorded at Sutton Gault on the 22 July 1975; talk about wild mushrooms and mushroom picking; mushroom ketc...

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Historical Events

1969-1975

This file contains Theo Brown's pamphlet, 'Trojans in the West Country' (St. Peter Port: Toucan Press, 1970), 16 pp.; L. V. Grinsell's pamphlet on the folklore of Stanton Drew (St. Peter Port: Toucan ...

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Plant Lore

1961-1980

This file includes an ms. letter from Gillian Bulmer to Stewart Sanderson on names of apples (12 November 1975); a photocopy of Grace Pleasant Wellborn's paper on plantlore in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'T...

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The Dwelling House: Rooms, Fittings, Utilities, Etc.

1969-1979

This file contains items on various aspects of the dwelling house, with a focus on fittings and equipment and domestic utilities. This includes an article by Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby on farm kit...

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Sound Recordings, Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

[1975]

Compilation of field recordings (copy extracts) made by Tony Green and others (including students of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies), and possibly used by him in a session, Interviewin...

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SED Word Map: Off
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SED Word Map: Off

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Early-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question IX.2.13, Off (as in to fall off a horse), mapping the distribution of the response Off Of. The map is headed Linguistic Atlas of Engla...

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SED Word Map: Cold
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SED Word Map: Cold

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question VI.13.18, Cold, mapping responses Cold, Starved and Starving. The map is headed Survey of English Dialects: N...

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Dialect recording in Todmorden, West Yorkshire

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

Apr 1939

[Side 1] Sarah Ann tells series of anecdotes incl. man who fell ill after using wife's 'bust developer'; Frank recalls seeing cock-fighting in past. [Side 2] Frank, Sarah Ann and Mrs. Barker in conver...

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Dialect recording in Acomb, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Lenihan, J M A

11 Jul 1939

[Side 1] Joseph, Neil and Albert talk about smoking, different attitudes to smoking, price of baccy [= 'tobacco'], anecdotes about pipe smoking. [Side 2] Joseph, Neil and Albert discuss horses, hens, ...

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Dialect recording in Newcastle upon Tyne

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Lenihan, J M A

29 Jun 1939

[Side 1] Bob recites reading passage about 'wor Susie' in Newcastle dialect; Harry recalls father's uncle, Bob Bagnall, drowning while rowing on Tyne; Jonny recalls winner of rowing race drowning afte...

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The Fowler Manuscript

Fowler, Wilelmine M E

[1960s-1970s]

Bound photocopy of Wilelmine Fowler's manuscript, 'Yorkshire Sayings and Superstitions Collected in the Neighbourhood of Wakefield' ( ca. 1890s). Fowler intended the manuscript for publication in the ...

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